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Disney dumped illegally, suit says; Plaintiffs accuse studio of dumping contaminants from cooling systems

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on June 11, 2009 at 12:39 pm

From the Glendale News Press:

The Walt Disney Co. for decades has contaminated groundwater with toxic chemicals, including cancer-causing chromium 6, according to a lawsuit filed last week in Los Angeles Superior Court. The lawsuit, brought by the watchdog group Environmental World Watch Inc. and Burbank homeowner Dennis Jackson, alleges that Disney had been dumping wastewater contaminated with hexavalent chromium from its on-site cooling systems since 1998.

On Tuesday, the same Sacramento-based law firm representing Jackson and Environmental World Watch, Kershaw Cutter & Ratinoff LLP, filed another lawsuit in Superior Court expanding the number of plaintiffs against Disney for similar allegations by 16 people. The lead plaintiff listed in the lawsuit is also a Burbank resident.

According to the June 3 lawsuit, contaminated runoff flowed down the centerline of Parkside Avenue, toward Parish Place and across Riverside Drive into the Polliwog, an 11-acre parcel next to the studio’s Imagineering facilities.

The dumping has since changed to flow through an underground pipeline that flows into the Los Angeles River and curbside drains, according to the claim.

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June 11, 2009 · Filed Under Groundwater, Southern California

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