[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, VOCs, FUEL: Former Camp Lejeune (NC) Marine

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

VA disability settled, but man still has questions about Lejeune  
contamination

Hope Hodge
Jacksonville Daily News (NC)
December 13, 2011

Bill Lawson is a man “blessed” with cancer.

At least, that’s how he describes his situation.

The 75-year-old Jacksonville resident and former Camp Lejeune Marine  
has a medley of maladies, many of which he believes can be traced to  
his exposure to contaminated drinking water during the 13 years he  
spent on base. This fall, he received confirmation from the  
Department of Veterans Affairs: A letter mailed in October granted  
him 100-percent disability for colon cancer, first diagnosed in 1998,  
and 20 percent for bladder cancer, diagnosed in 2005, citing Lawson’s  
time aboard Lejeune as connection.

What Lawson remains unsure of is what portion of his time spent on  
base caused his cancers: living in base housing at Tarawa Terrace,  
where the drinking water supply was contaminated with the organic  
solvents TCE and PCE, or working at a warehouse building in the  
Hadnot Point Industrial Area.




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For the entire article, see
http://www.jdnews.com/articles/-98429--.html

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