[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: "drinking water contamination at NC's Camp Lejeune could date to 1948"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Report says drinking water contamination at NC's Camp Lejeune could  
date to 1948

By Associated Press
March 14, 2013

RALEIGH, N.C. - Drinking water contamination at North Carolina's  
sprawling Camp Lejeune military base could date to 1948, five years  
earlier than researchers had reported previously, a federal report  
indicates.

The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry plans to release  
a report Friday on the contamination that has led to a long-running  
dispute between former residents and the Marines Corps.

TCE, an industrial solvent now known as a human carcinogen, likely  
first exceeded the maximum contaminant level in August 1953, but  
evidence shows its presence in the water supply might date as far  
back as November 1948, the report states. A copy of the report was  
obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.

"Basically, it's vindication and confirmation for what I've been  
saying for nearly 16 years," said retired Marine Staff Sgt. Jerry  
Ensminger, a leader in a protracted fight for information about the  
contamination. "The truth is finally coming out."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/energy-environment/apnewsbreak- 
key-report-says-contamination-of-camp-lejeune-drinking-water-could- 
date-to-1948/2013/03/14/d050444a-8cdf-11e2-adca-74ab31da3399_story.html

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To download the ATSDR report, go to
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/sites/lejeune/hadnotpoint.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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