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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 ...
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.
Marine Special Operations Command. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune[1] (/ ləˈʒɜːrn / lə-ZHURN or / ləˈʒuːn / lə-ZHOON) [2][3] is a 246-square-mile (640 km 2) [4] United States military training facility in Jacksonville, North Carolina. Its 14 miles (23 km) of beaches make the base a major area for amphibious assault training, and its ...
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 water at Camp Lejeune was contaminated by an off-base dry cleaning business and leaking underground storage tanks, industrial spills and waste disposal on the base.
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] The film, which debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2011, [2] has a 100% "fresh" rating on review aggregator website Rotten ...
A 1997 ATSDR report drew wide criticism from Congress and former residents and workers at the base for dismissing health concerns about Camp Lejeune’s tainted water.
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 ...