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(EstateNewsWire.com, August 26, 2012 ) San Francisco, CA -- One of the most renowned theme parks of the world, Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, CA., is suspected to be the cause of contaminating groundwater with cancer-causing heavy metal, chromium 6, after a leak in their aging air conditioning system.
At the moment, it has not been confirmed whether Disney’s air conditioning is to blame fully for this mind boggling contamination, but federal and state regulators have been called in to investigate the issue.
According to the LATimes.com, a consultant has been brought in by the Environmental Protection Agency and has listed the Disney Studios and its surrounding areas as “potential sources of chromium contamination in groundwater".
Chromium 6 is a very dangerous chemical for human beings and has been termed to be cancer-causing by experts. It is used mainly in aerospace manufacturing along with its use in other major industries.
What brought the Disney Studios under scrutiny is their use of cooling towers, a well known source of chromium 6 when a similar chemical leak was caused in other sites.
"We're trying to determine the source of chromium — why is it there?" Lisa Hanusiak, remedial project manager for EPA Region 9, said. "We had these soil samples downgrade, so that led us to think, What was going on at facilities upgrade?"
For now, Disney has not accepted any allegations of using chromium 6 in any of its air conditioning systems or cooling towers. They made their side of the story known in a response to the EPA earlier in May of 2011. Disney also made it clear to the agency that there were small, but legitimate amounts of chromium, which are used to clean equipment in film processing only and not disposed on in an inconsiderate manner.
Disney’s cooling systems date back to 1993, when they were replaced with cooling towers for the first time since 1938.
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