Contaminated Water Supplies at Camp Lejeune: Assessing Potential Health Effects

Committee on Contaminated Drinking Water at Camp Lejeune,National Research Council

Contaminated Water Supplies at Camp Lejeune: Assessing Potential Health Effects
Format
Paperback
Publisher
National Academies Press
Country
United States
Published
15 August 2009
Pages
338
ISBN
9780309136990

Contaminated Water Supplies at Camp Lejeune: Assessing Potential Health Effects

Committee on Contaminated Drinking Water at Camp Lejeune,National Research Council

In the early 1980s, two water-supply systems on the Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina were found to be contaminated with the industrial solvents trichloroethylene (TCE) and perchloroethylene (PCE). The water systems were supplied by the Tarawa Terrace and Hadnot Point watertreatment plants, which served enlisted-family housing, barracks for unmarried service personnel, base administrative offices, schools, and recreational areas. The Hadnot Point water system also served the base hospital and an industrial area and supplied water to housing on the Holcomb Boulevard water system (full-time until 1972 and periodically thereafter). This book examines what is known about the contamination of the water supplies at Camp Lejeune and whether the contamination can be linked to any adverse health outcomes in former residents and workers at the base.

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