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 Stories About: Department of Defense AND health AND news AND North Carolina AND toxics AND water pollution
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Lejeune Bugged
U.S. Navy must notify N.C.-based Marines of exposure to contaminated water |
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01 Oct 2007 |
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| Posted at 10:14 AM on 01 Oct 2007 Some 1 million Marines stationed at North Carolina's Camp Lejeune between 1958 and 1987 drank, cooked with, and showered in toxic water; under a defense reauthorization bill amendment recently approved by the Senate, the U.S. Navy would be required to, um, let them know. The federal government closed the base's wells in the mid-'80s after confirming they were contaminated w ... |
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| Topics: Department of Defense, health, news, North Carolina, toxics, water pollution (all these topics) |
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