[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH: Camp Lejeune (NC) survey

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Survey seeks data on Camp Lejeune illnesses


By Lena H. Sun
Washington Post
June 26, 2011

Hundreds of thousands of people who lived or worked at Camp Lejeune  
in North Carolina more than 25 years ago are being asked to complete  
a detailed health survey to determine what diseases may be linked to  
contaminated water they drank and bathed in at the largest Marine  
base on the East Coast.

As many as 1 million people over three decades may have been exposed  
to well water that was contaminated by toxins, officials have said.  
Some of the toxins may have been present at levels as much as 40  
times higher than current safety standards.

The federal Agency for Toxic Substances & Disease Registry, a sister  
agency of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is  
sending the survey to about 300,000 people who lived or worked at the  
Marine base and about 53,000 to those who lived and worked at Camp  
Pendleton, Calif., before 1986. The responses from Camp Pendleton are  
being used for comparison purposes, officials said.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/agency-surveys-tainted-water- 
at-marine-base/2011/06/23/AG4aRQmH_story.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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