Boeing Agrees To New Framework To Clean Up Santa Susana Field Laboratory Contamination

CBS Los Angeles

May 16, 2022

Boeing has agreed to strict new protocols to clean up the contamination of the former Santa Susana Field Laboratory in the hills of Simi Valley, where rocket engines, small-scale nuclear reactors, and chemical lasers were once researched and tested.

The framework was announced last week and involves Cal EPA's Department of Toxic Substances Control and the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board. It ensures Boeing will clean up radionuclides in soil to levels that would have existed without industrial activity, cleanup of chemical contamination to restore areas to the standard of "resident with a garden," and so that stormwater runoff from those former testing areas will not be polluted.

"No community should have to worry that their soil and water are contaminated with toxic chemicals and radioactive waste," Jared Blumenfeld, California's Secretary for Environmental Protection, said in a statement. "Boeing, as well as NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy, are now under binding agreements that compel a science-based, stringent cleanup of the soil and water at Santa Susana.

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