2007 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: 26 Sep 2007 23:21:39 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Camp Lejeune (NC) notification legislation
 
Measure would find victims of Lejeune water problems

From staff reports
News & Observer (NC)
September 26, 2007

The U.S. Senate has passed a measure requiring the government to notify residents who may have been exposed to contaminated water at the Camp Lejeune Marine base in Jacksonville, Sen. Elizabeth Dole announced today.

A federal agency found that children exposed to drinking water there before contaminated wells were closed in 1989 developed leukemia, other cancers and birth defects such as spina bifida, Dole's office said in a news release. As many as a million people may have been exposed to the water.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/716944.html

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