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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 ...
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 location between two deep-water ...
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In one of the largest water contamination cases in U.S. history, up to 1 million people who lived or worked at Camp Lejeune from 1953 to 1987 may have been exposed to a drinking water supply ...
For more than 30 years, multiple sources contaminated Camp Lejeune’s supply wells, including waste from a nearby dry-cleaning facility and leaks from underground storage tanks on base, according ...
Aug. 30—Tears in a retention pond lining at Cannon Air Force Base near Clovis were discovered this month following a July leak of water contaminated with PFAS. Drinking water wells at the base ...
The Red Hill water crisis is a public health crisis and environmental disaster caused by fuel leaking from the Red Hill Underground Fuel Storage Facility into the freshwater aquifer underneath the island of Oʻahu. [ 1 ] Residents in military housing in and around Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam began reporting chemical contamination in their ...
December 1, 2023 at 5:16 AM. MASHPEE — A new study detailing the scope of so-called “forever chemicals” in private groundwater wells near military bases across the country has found 17 wells ...