[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, VOCs: Camp Lejeune (NC) Congressional Hearings

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Congressional hearing examines past, future of Camp Lejeune toxic water vets

HOPE HODGE
Jacksonville Daily News (NC)
September 15, 2010

Peter Devereaux has it in writing: The two years he spent stationed at 
Camp Lejeune is the best explanation for the breast cancer that is 
killing him.

Jim Watters has similar assurance of the cause of his terminal kidney 
cancer: A letter from the Department of Veterans Affairs grants him 
100-percent disability and lists the cause of his illness as exposure to 
contaminated water from the base.

Both Devereaux and Watters will appear before the U.S. House Science and 
Technology Committee this morning, part of a panel of veterans and 
experts discussing the decades since the Marine Corps discovered high 
concentrations of degreasing chemicals and dry cleaner solvents in the 
drinking water of several Camp Lejeune neighborhoods in 1981 and 1982.

Close to 30 years later, new revelations about the extent of the 
contamination, the content of the water and the toxic properties of the 
chemicals involved are still coming to light. In the past year alone, 
documents indicating a large fuel leak in the Hadnot Point region of 
Camp Lejeune that dumped the carcinogen benzene into the water supply 
have received public attention.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.jdnews.com/news/water-82634-lejeune-camp.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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