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Sunday, February 21, 2010

Agency says Camp Lejeune water tainted for 30 years

From 1957 to 1987, according to the agency, residents and employees at Lejeune were drinking, showering in and washing dishes with water coursing with contaminants.

Agency says military base water tainted
Sunday, February 21, 2010
By Daniel Malloy, Post-Gazette Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON -- Cliff Armstrong started getting migraines about 15 years ago.

Then, he felt disoriented and suffered from memory loss. Respiratory infections and adult-onset asthma came next, before Mr. Armstrong was diagnosed with Ankylosing Spondylitis, a disease with no known cure that attacked his spine and organs.

"It just seems like everything is falling apart," said Mr. Armstrong of Cabot. "And I'm only 46 years old. I don't smoke. I don't have a risky lifestyle. I'm a pretty safe person. So where's all this coming from?"

In October 2008, he received a letter from his former employer: the U.S. Marine Corps. The Corps wanted him to register for a study on water contamination at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune on the North Carolina coast.

Mr. Armstrong, who lived on the base on and off between 1981 and 1985, signed up. In July, he got another letter, accompanied by research from the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry -- part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.



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1 comment:

  1. My husband was in camp Legeune and has AS also. To make matters worse the VA missed it and he ended up with a spinal cord injury.

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