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The US Navy recently acknowledged it found jet fuel in the drinking water aboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz. Veteran sailors and Marines told Insider that contaminated water has been ...
In one of the largest water contamination cases in U.S. history, up to 1 million people who lived or worked at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina from 1953 to 1987 may have been exposed to a drinking ...
The Navy says water from the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln's bilges, a type of drainage system, leaked into drinking water on the ship. Navy Says It Has Found the Source of Water ...
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 of the three wells supplying the Navy water system were shut down due to contamination, but the third well was able to continue providing clean water and remained in operation; [18] [56] however, fuel from the contaminated water had leached into the piping of the Navy water system and rendered it unable to deliver clean water.
In March 2022, the Navy and the state Department of Health said they had successfully cleaned the contaminated water system, but many residents had doubts—and some were still reporting symptoms.
Diagram showing the water pollution of the seas from untreated ballast water discharges. Ballast water discharges by ships can have a negative impact on the marine environment. The discharge of ballast water and sediments by ships is governed globally under the Ballast Water Management Convention, since its
The U.S. Navy recently admitted that the crew on the USS Nimitz used water to drink and bathe that had been contaminated by what it described as "traces" of jet fuel.