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Lockheed Martin

Groundwater Cleanup Violation (at the Burbank area of the San Fernando Valley Superfund Site)

Date: 05/02/2002 (Date of Fine)

Misconduct Type: Environment

Enforcement Agency: EPA

Contracting Party: EPA

Court Type: Administrative

Amount: $1,300,000

Disposition: Fine

Synopsis: Lockheed was fined by the EPA for failing to operate a pump and treating groundwater cleanup system at less than full capacity. “Beginning in June 2000 Lockheed failed to operate the treatment system at the 9,000 gallons per minute rate set forth in a 1992 cleanup agreement between Lockheed and the EPA. The large capacity treatment system was built to remove TCE and PCE, hazardous chemicals, from the groundwater at the Burbank Superfund site.”