[CPEO-MEF] VOCs, HEALTH: "Agency: Camp Lejeune water contaminated in 1953"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Agency: Camp Lejeune water contaminated in 1953

By ALLEN G. BREED
Associated Press/Jacksonville Daily News (NC)
January 18, 2013


Tens of thousands more Marines and their relatives could be eligible  
for government health care for their illnesses now that a federal  
agency determined that the water at North Carolina's Camp Lejeune was  
contaminated four years earlier than previously thought.

In a letter to the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Agency for  
Toxic Substances and Disease Registry said computer modeling shows  
that drinking water in the residential Hadnot Point area was unsafe  
for human consumption as far back as 1953. President Barack Obama  
signed a law last year granting health care and screening to Marines  
and their dependents on the base between 1957 and 1987.

"This is yet another piece of the puzzle that's coming together and  
slowly exposing the extent of the contamination at Camp Lejeune - and  
the Marine Corps' culpability and negligence," said Mike Partain, a  
Marine's son who was born at the southeast North Carolina base and  
who says he is one of at least 82 men diagnosed with breast cancer.  
"This is four years overdue."


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For the entire article, see
http://www.jdnews.com/news/military/agency-camp-lejeune-water- 
contaminated-in-1953-1.80943

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