Boeing loses court case, must tighten regulation of PCBs at toxic Simi site (Ojai Valley News)

“Late last year, a Los Angeles Superior Court Judge handed down a ruling in a lawsuit brought by Boeing against the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board, resulting in a tightening of regulation governing runoff pollution from the Santa Susana Field Lab site overlooking Simi Valley.

Boeing, which owns and operates the heavily contaminated former nuclear and rocket-test site, argued in a case filed last year that the LARWQCB had overstepped its authority by imposing new requirements in 2023 for testing for certain pollutants, such as PCBs and their toxic components (called “congeners”), among other measures.

The Dec. 30 ruling by Superior Court Judge Stephen Goorvitch, instead, for the most part, endorsed the LARWQCB’s more-stringent regulations. The new regulations — which Boeing implemented while challenging in court — call for the use of advanced Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) detection methods, as well as better monitoring of the outfalls flowing into the LA River, and a new groundwater study of the two large ponds that collect runoff for treatment.”

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See also “SSFL watchdogs claim victory in court” from the Simi Valley Acorn.