EPA Settles Suit Over San Fernando Valley Superfund Site Cleanup

Four companies that own operations in a San Fernando Valley Superfund Site have each agreed to pay $250,000 to the federal government and collectively more than $20,000 to the state of California to settle claims that the companies failed to pay costs associated with mitigating groundwater contamination in the area.

The Environmental Protection Agency and California’s Department of Toxic Substances Control filed the proposed consent decree signed by Honeywell International Inc., HD Development of Maryland, Inc., Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc., and PSA Institutional Partners LP in the US District Court for the Central District of California on ...