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The Camp Lejeune water contamination problem occurred at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, North Carolina, from 1953 to 1987. [1] During that time, United States Marine Corps (USMC) personnel and families at the base — as well as many international, particularly British, [2] assignees — bathed in and ingested tap water contaminated with harmful chemicals at all concentrations ...
Two contaminated wells at Camp Lejeune closed in 1985, but sailors, Marines, families and civilians on the base had already been exposed to the contaminants for decades, according to government ...
Drinking water at Camp Lejeune was heavily contaminated with a number of cancer-causing industrial chemicals, including trichloroethylene or TCE, vinyl chloride and benzene, from 1953 to 1985.
Military personnel stationed at Camp Lejeune from 1975 to 1985 had at least a 20% higher risk for a number of cancers than those stationed elsewhere, federal health officials said Wednesday in a ...
The death of Janey Ensminger led to the creation of H.R.1742, known as the Janey Ensminger Act, an act of the 112th United States Congress which established a presumption of service connection for illnesses associated with contaminants in the water supply at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune between the years 1957 and 1987 [3] and which provided healthcare to family members of veterans who lived ...
The U.S. government already faces billions in potential payouts to workers and residents who say they were harmed by drinking water contaminated with fuel, solvents and other toxins from Camp ...
Semper Fi: Always Faithful, is a documentary film about the Camp Lejeune water contamination.The film made the 15 film short list for consideration for a 2012 Academy Award for best documentary feature. [1]
Between 1953 and 1987, toxic chemicals, known to cause deadly diseases, seeped into Camp Lejeune’s water from underground fuel storage tanks, an off-base dry cleaning facility, industrial area ...