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How the Camp Lejeune Justice Act assists victims and survivors of cancers and injuries from exposure to toxic groundwater!

How the Camp Lejeune Justice Act assists victims and survivors of cancers and injuries from exposure to toxic groundwater!

Those impacted may be eligible for  compensation if they meet all of these requirements.

Those impacted may include:

  • Veterans
  • Reservists
  • Guardsmen

Both of these must be true:

  • They served at Camp Lejeune for at least 30 cumulative days from August 1953 through December 1987, and
  • They didn’t receive a dishonorable discharge when they separated from the military

And they must have a diagnosis of one or more of these presumptive conditions:

  • Adult leukemia
  • Aplastic anemia and other myelodysplastic syndromes
  • Bladder cancer
  • Kidney cancer
  • Liver cancer
  • Multiple myeloma
  • Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
  • Parkinson’s disease

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Soldiers, workers, and families are coming forward thanks to the Camp Lejeune Justice Act legislation

In response to the reports of serious health conditions suffered by those on the base, Congress passed two specific pieces of legislation that opened the door for justice and made compensation available to those affected.

H.R.1627 - Honoring America's Veterans and Caring for Camp Lejeune Families Act of 2012 was the first piece of legislation specifically designed to improve the living conditions of all those affected in the following ways:

  • Healthcare matters;
  • Housing matters;
  • Retroactive benefits;
  • Homeless matters;
  • Education matters;
  • Memorial, burial, and cemetery benefits; and,
  • Other business-related benefits.

The second piece of legislation–referred to as H.R.2192 - Camp Lejeune Justice Act of 2021–stated that affected individuals were eligible to sue and recover damages for harmful exposure to contaminated water.

The house resolution also prohibited the federal government from asserting immunity and protection from litigation in response to those lawsuits.

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How toxic materials in the water at Camp Lejeune affected soldiers, survivors, and families

From August 1953 through December 1987, soldiers and families stationed at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina Marine Corps Base may have been exposed to highly-toxic groundwater due to oil, industrial wastewater, and radioactive chemicals being dumped into storm drains.

At the Tarawa Terrace family housing units, the drinking and bathing water might possibly have been contaminated with one or more of the following toxins:

  • Perchloroethylene (PCE), a dry-cleaning solvent;
  • Trichloroethylene (TCE), a degreaser;
  • Benzene, an industrial solvent; and,
  • Vinyl chloride, a colorless, flammable gas used in plastics.

The levels of PCE in the water during this period grossly exceeded the amount allowed by the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Safe Drinking Water Act.

As chemicals from several local businesses adjacent to the Camp Lejeune military base leaked into water supplying the Tarawa Terrace drinking water system, veterans, workers, and families were exposed to health-threatening conditions.

In 1987, the military base shut down the Tarawa Terrace water treatment plant because of PCE contamination of the drinking water–however, the damage had already been done and senior base officials sought to cover it up.

Source(s)

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

The Shield Legal Network encourages soldiers, workers, and families of the toxic groundwater poisonings from Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina to take advantage of the Camp Lejeune Justice Act.