[CPEO-MEF] Camp Lejeune (NC) water panel

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Panel eyeing base water gets plea to expand study

CHRIS MAZZOLINI
JACKSONVILLE DAILY NEWS (NC)
February 2,2006

ATLANTA — A federal agency investigating past water contamination aboard 
Camp Lejeune agreed Wednesday during a meeting with a community panel to 
start hashing out the details for a study that could determine whether 
those exposed to bad water may have a higher death rate than the average 
population.

The seven-member community assistance panel - consisting of people from 
the affected community - met for the first time in Atlanta to provide 
recommendations for the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry 
as to how it proceeds concerning Camp Lejeune.

It is the latest in a number of steps investigating the contamination of 
Camp Lejeune’s water system between 1968 and 1985 by the chemicals 
trichloroethylene (TCE) and tetrachloroethylene (PCE). The chemicals 
leaked into the water supply from a nearby dry-cleaning business and 
areas aboard the base.

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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