[CPEO-MEF] Group takes its fight over base toxins back to D.C.

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Group takes its fight over base toxins back to D.C.
By THOMAS DAIL
DAILY NEWS STAFF
Article ran : 11/13/2002

For the second time in as many months, Karen Strand is taking the trip
to Washington, D.C., to make a case.

And it?s not just her case, but one for hundreds of former residents of
base housing areas aboard Camp Lejeune from the 1960s to the mid-1980s.

Strand is one of the sisters who created a Web site for people who lived
in homes at Tarawa Terrace or Hadnot Point prior to 1985 who might have
gotten sick from toxins found in drinking water there

Strand and members of her group, THE STAND, are lobbying Congress and
federal agencies to help. They are seeking a standstill agreement that
would halt the federal statute of limitations on a potential
class-action lawsuit.

They are also asking the federal government to expand the study on the
health effects of the contaminated water and for medical assistance for
people who lived or worked in Tarawa Terrace or Hadnot Point before 1985
and might have gotten sick from toxins that seeped into groundwater from
a nearby dry cleaner.

This article can be viewed at:
http://www.jdnews.com/Details.cfm?StoryID=8336

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