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

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Officials: Camp Lejeune monitoring chemicals in groundwater

HOPE HODGE
Jacksonville Daily News (NC)
October 28, 2010

Marine officials told The Daily News Tuesday that they acknowledge the 
presence of toxic chemicals in the soil aboard Camp Lejeune and have 
mechanisms in place to mitigate risks to base workers and residents.

According to a 300-page report released by the Agency for Toxic 
Substances and Disease Registry Friday detailing the extent and location 
of contamination from leaks and incorrect disposal practices, volatile 
organic compounds including the dry cleaning solvents TCE and PCE and 
the known carcinogen benzene remain in the soil and groundwater on base, 
though the drinking wells contaminated with these chemicals were long 
ago taken offline.

...

One risk of these chemicals remaining in soil and groundwater is vapor 
intrusion, a process by which volatile compounds become gases and 
migrate up the soil column by diffusion, occasionally forcing their way 
into nearby buildings. This happened in Hadnot Point as recently as 1999.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.jdnews.com/news/chemicals-84184-base-benzene.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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