[CPEO-BIF] Santa Monica, California settles with Boeing over Douglas Aircraft pollution

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

City: Boeing to Pay $39.5 Million for Water Cleanup
The City Council approves a big settlement over water contamination  
modeled after a similar agreement struck with Gillette Corp. two  
years ago for $68 million.

By Jenna Chandler
Santa Monica Patch (CA)
May 9, 2012

The Boeing Co. will pay the city of Santa Monica $39.5 million over  
the course of 10 years to settle claims that McDonnell Douglas  
Aircraft contaminated the local water supply when it housed some  
manufacturing operations on Exposition Boulevard in the 1940s-70s.

The City Council unanimously approved the terms of the settlement  
Tuesday night, after more than three decades of research to find the  
sources of a trichloroethylene leak into two of its drinking-water  
wells. The city's approval is contingent upon the Los Angeles  
Regional Water Quality Control Board issuing to Boeing a cleanup and  
abatement order.

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For the entire article, see
http://santamonica.patch.com/articles/city-boeing-to-pay-39-5-million- 
for-water-clean-up

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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