[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, VOCs: New Camp Lejeune (NC) study planned

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy to fund Lejeune water contamination studies

By KEVIN MAURER
Associated Press
Chicago Tribune
December 4, 2009

WILMINGTON, N.C.

Government data from the 1990s that failed to find a link between 
polluted water and child illnesses at Camp Lejeune will be reanalyzed 
after the Navy agreed to pay for the new study.

The outcome could affect claims by former residents of the Marine Corps 
base seeking damages over birth defects and child cancers they blame on 
exposure to contaminated water.

A letter obtained by The Associated Press shows the Navy will spend 
almost $2 million for another look at a 1998 study that investigated 
cancer and birth defects in babies born to women who were pregnant at 
Camp Lejeune before contaminated wells were shut down.

The service is also funding a related study of how underground water 
flowed at the base and how toxins would have been introduced and spread, 
to show the extent of the contamination, according to the Nov. 24 letter 
from the Department of the Navy to the Agency for Toxic Substances and 
Disease Registry, the U.S. health agency conducting the study.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-nc-toxictapwater,0,6861958.story

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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