What poisoned the water at Camp Lejeune?
How many chemicals were in the water? What were they?
4 core chemicals.
There were four core chemicals and 70 secondary chemicals identified in the water including:
- Trichloroethylene (TCE)
- Tetrachloroethylene (PCE)
- Vinyl chloride (VC)
- Benzene
Source: SNARL ➤
How many times over the safe exposure limits were the chemicals?
Up to 280 times.
From the 1950s to at least 1987, the drinking water was contaminated with chemicals at levels up to 280 times higher than what is permitted by safety standards.
In 2011 the U.S EPA declared TCE was a known human carcinogen and established a maximum exposure level at 5 parts per billion in the drinking water.
A May 1982 drinking water sample taken from Camp Lejeune’s Naval Hospital was found to contain TCE at 1,400 parts per billion.
Source: Poisoned By My Government ➤
What kind of diseases did the water cause?
Cancers, Parkinson’s disease, renal failure and more.
The VA confirms that at least 15 diseases are caused by consuming the toxic water. However, additional illnesses have been experienced by former residents. They include:
- Adult leukemia
- Aplastic anemia and other myelodysplastic syndromes
- Bladder cancer
- Kidney cancer
- Liver cancer
- Multiple myeloma
- Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
- Parkinson’s disease
- Bladder cancer
- Breast cancer
- Esophageal cancer
- Female infertility
- Hepatic steatosis
- Kidney cancer
- Leukemia
- Lung cancer
- Miscarriage
- Multiple myeloma
- Myelodysplastic syndromes
- Neurobehavioral effects
- Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
- Renal toxicity
- Scleroderma