2017 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2017 22:39:51 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] HEALTH: "Lawsuit: U.S. Marine families in Beaufort County [SC] not warned about environmental contamination"
 
Lawsuit: U.S. Marine families in Beaufort County not warned about environmental contamination

BY KASIA KOVACS
Island Packet (SC)
September 1, 2017


Potentially thousands of former Laurel Bay residents were not warned of serious environmental contamination while living at the U.S. Marines’ housing complex in northern Beaufort County and are owed back rent and other damages, a lawsuit filed Thursday alleges.

Eleven former residents filed the suit in Beaufort County Circuit Court on behalf of themselves and “all other similarly situated,” described in the suit as “thousands of former tenants who lived at Laurel Bay.” The complex includes about 1,100 homes.

The suit alleges the defendants — private companies that manage Laurel Bay — were aware of multiple serious contamination problems at the housing site but that they failed to adequately inform the residents.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.islandpacket.com/news/local/community/beaufort-news/bg-military/article170810767.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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