[CPEO-MEF] Vapor Intrusion at Camp Lejeune (NC)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Dole: Notify Marines of Toxic Exposure

By RITA BEAMISH/Associated Press
Forbes
July 18, 2007


Military officials should directly inform hundreds of thousands of 
Marine families and workers that they drank and washed in 
toxin-contaminated water at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, Sen. 
Elizabeth Dole said Wednesday.

Dole, R-N.C., wants to force the secretary of the Navy to locate and 
notify Marines and civilians who were exposed to the water up until the 
mid-1980s when the base shut down contaminated wells.

In a new twist, Marine officials raised the prospect Wednesday that the 
same contaminants may endanger residents in the form of vapors that can 
be inhaled. The base is testing to see if vapors are seeping through 
soil into homes and buildings from a groundwater plume.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/07/18/ap3929010.html
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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
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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