CDC Report: US Marines Drank Tainted Water for 30 Years = Camp Lejeune

[L. Coyote]

http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-06-12-voa66.cfm

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says that as many as 75,000 people may have been exposed to drinking water contaminated by dry cleaning fluid at the Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina.

The CDC said Tuesday that the contamination lasted 30 years from 1957 through 1987. An off-base dry cleaners leaked tetrachloroethylene, or PCE, into a septic system near the well of a family housing area, called the Tarawa Terrace.

The federal health agency recommends that former Camp Lejeune Marines and their families who lived in base housing get physicals and monitor their health for any changes.

[seemslikeadream]

1. 30 YEARS 30 YEARS

30 YEARS

[annarbor]

2. Great!

I was stationed in Camp Lejeune from 1983-1986!
I live in a place called French Creek. Home of the 8th Communication's Battalion.

I wonder if I should be concerned...

Ann Arbor

[Lone_Star_Dem]

3. This is bad

But it also begs the question of why a septic system was allowed to be near the well of a family housing area? There are regulations that also prohibit that from taking place and there should be periodic inspections.

Locally we had a dry cleaners that leached chemicals into the aquifer that supplied a school and a retirement village and multiple private homes. It went undetected until people began coming up ill. When it was finally investigated they also found out that the aquifer had also been being contaminated with chemicals from paint that had been being poured down a well for years by a local business. The water supply is still considered toxic after 10 years of superfund cleanup efforts.