[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: St. Petersburg Times reviews Camp Lejeune (NC) documents

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Unlikely cancers shake faith in Corps

By William R. Levesque
St. Petersburg Times (FL)
October 16, 2009

The U.S. Marine Corps has long assured the public that it closed 
drinking water wells at Camp Lejeune as soon as it found they were 
tainted with toxic chemicals.

But a St. Petersburg Times review of Marine Corps documents shows the 
base failed to close the wells for years - despite stark warnings that 
its drinking water was befouled by industrial cleaning solvents.

The Corps then provided misleading and incomplete information about the 
contamination to regulators, the public and its Marines, the review shows.

Today, former Marines and their family members - dubbed "Poisoned 
Patriots" by Congress - wonder if contaminated water at the North 
Carolina camp sickened them. At least 146,000 people who lived at Camp 
Lejeune have signed up to a Marine health registry. The list includes 
more than 12,000 Floridians. Only one state, North Carolina, has more.




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For the entire article, see
http://www.tampabay.com/news/military/veterans/camp-lejeune-water-contamination-history-detailed-in-documents/1044542

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Lenny Siegel
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