[CPEO-MEF] Panel says expand Camp Lejeune (NC) study

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[I've been trying to find out whether anyone associated with the Marines
or the independent panel has considered the potential for vapor
intrusion at Camp Lejeune. As I understand it, at least some of the
military housing units affected by contaminated drinking water had
underlying shallow groundwater contamination. If so, significant
exposures to TCE vapors would have continued long after the provision of
safer drinking water supplies. - LS]


Panel says include all in study of base water 

CHRIS MAZZOLINI 
JACKSONVILLE DAILY NEWS (NC)
July 2, 2005 

An independent panel of scientists is recommending that the federal
agency researching past water contamination aboard Camp Lejeune notify
all people potentially exposed, expand its areas of study and allow
those affected an advisory role, according to a report released Thursday evening.

According to the panel's advice, the Agency for Toxic Substances and
Disease Registry, a division of the Centers for Disease Control, should
expand its research to cover all people potentially exposed to
contaminated water between the mid-1960s and 1985, including children
who lived on base, adults who lived or only worked on base and in-utero infants.

Feasibility studies should be conducted on these various groups before
going forward on a full study, the report says.

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For the entire article, see
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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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