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Camp Lejeune's new wastewater treatment plant.
Toxic chemicals seeped into Camp Lejeune‘s water supply for three decades. The contaminated wells weren’t shut down until 1987, years after tests first indicated the water was polluted.
Additionally, Camp Lejeune officials didn’t immediately contact effected families. Here’s a Stars and Stripes timeline of events.
The Camp Lejeune water quality reports are available online.
The Navy mailed letters in May 2010 to veterans stationed at Camp Lejeune informing them of the water contamination between 1957 and 1987. You can download a VA Health Care fact sheet on Camp Lejeune Water Contamination.
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry has set up a web site with details and also conducted several health studies with Camp Lejeune families.
Marine families once based at Lejeune who have questions about health problems plan to gather today for an informational meeting. Mike Partainat (strashni2002@yahoo.com) is organizing the gathering planned from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Tampa Marriott Westshore, 1001 N. Westshore Blvd.
Former residents and employees of Camp Lejeune can register on the Marine Corps’ official water study website at https://clnr.hqi.usmc.mil/. There’s also a toll free line with the Department of Navy 877-261-9782 staffed Monday through Friday 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. or email at clwater@usmc.mil.
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I was stationed At Lejeune from March 52 to Oct 53, about 18 months. In 1995 I had a cancerous kidney removed. Was the water contaminated during my stay?
yes
My husband was in the Marine Corp 1971-1973 and was at Camp Lejeune some of the time. He died of adrenal corticol cancer at age 46 in 1999. Have there been other marines with this rare cancer that may have been there or exposed?
My son in law was conceived and lived on Camp Lejeune as a child – born there in 1973. He died of Adrenal Cortical Cancer in 2002 at age 29.
My husband and I lived in a town outside of Camp Lejeune call Verona in 1990 until 1991. However, he was living on Lejeune from 1988 until 1990. Was the water comtanimated then?
My sisters, one married to a Marine, and the other living there with her, were there for three years, 1970-1973. One has had major
cancer chemo-therapy over the past year, for breast cancer, and,
her only source of contamination that anyone can detect, was the
waters of Camp LeJeune.
She is a teacher, of music, in public school, and the expenses wiped her out, but, the toll on her stamina and strength, on her health, are
the most cruel result. She is just starting to grow her hair back.
As a retired veteran, I am aghast at the treatment our military have received over contaminants on military bases, posts, outposts, and forward bases in Thailand, Korea, Guam, Laos, Cambodia, Alaska,
and in the CONUS, for which none of us has received any acknowledgement from the government.
The DOD CHECO report is horribly flawed, for only mentioning that Canine and Security Police could have been exposed, while the truth is that all US military on Royal Thai Air Bases were stationed on the perimeter, with communications facilities, flight facilities, bomb revetments, barracks, and dining facilities all contaminated with AO and/or herbicides, proven to cause some 15 diseases.
The truth seems to fall upon the deaf ears of an impotent Congress, a deceitful DOD, and an ignorant Veterans Administration.
My father, Major James D Manley 32 year USMC veteran died in 2007 at age 76 from squamous cell carcinoma. My mother was diagnosed with kidney cancer and had kidney and surrounding area removed at age 77. We spent the majority of my growing up life at Camp Lejeune living in Tarawa Terrace. There is no cancer on either side of the family which leads one to the obvious conclusion of the connection here… This is a horrible situation.
First, I am sorry for the loss of your father and hope your mother is in full recovery. If your parents’ cancers have not been reported, may I suggest you go on the website for The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. It has details about several health studies with Camp Lejeune families. It may be helpful for the registry to know about your father’s and mother’s conditions. Thank you for your comment. Keep us updated.
East Coast Seabees trained at Camp LeJune during Vietnam War, I was ther in 1966-67. Was the water bad then?
I was born at Camp Lejeune July 1955. Fortunately, we left when I was six months old. I probably didn’t drink the water, drinking milk at the time, but I’m sure my mother bathed me in water.
Both my parents had lung cancer. Neither one ever smoked a single cigarette in their life. My mother got lung cancer at the age of 40. She had one lung removed and survived, living the rest of her life on one lung until she died at age 70 (most of the women in her family lived into their 90s). My father got lung cancer at age 53 and died.
Is there anything I can do? A year or so ago, I heard about some class action lawsuits but they told me I didn’t qualify because my parents were there before 1957.But the odds of two spouses who never smoked getting lung cancer are tiny.
Were you a msgt with the usmc back in the 80′s?
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I have no family history of cancer at all, but I was recently diagnosed with Bladder Cancer and wonder if the water may be a contributing factor.
I lived in Jackonville from the age of 6 months (end of 1975) till about 2 (mid 1977) while my father was in the Marines stationed at Camp Lejeune. I know that this falls in the date of the known water contamination. However we didn’t live on base. We lived just outside the front gate on Piney Green Rd.
Then I was also station there myself for a month in early 1994 and then again from July 1995 till Oct 1997. Was the water issues rectified by the time I was stationed there myself?
Since We didn’t live “on base” when I was a kid and wasn’t stationed there myself till after the dates listed in VA fact sheet could this be a contributor to my cancer?
I was stationed at Lejeune from 81 to 85. I just found out about this on friday. Does this affect me, and what can i do about it?