Lawsuit Will Be Filed Over Camp Lejeune Water Contamination

The lawsuit will allege that regulations in place as early as 1963 prohibiting the contamination were not followed.

Overview of the Marine Corps base at Camp Lejeune, N.C. Image courtest: ASTDR

(WINSTON/SALEM, N.C.) - The law offices of Anderson Pangia & Associates, PLLC (offices in Washington, D.C. and Winston Salem, North Carolina) and Smorto, Persio, Webb & McGill (of Ebensburg, Pennsylvania), will file on Monday July 6th a lawsuit arising from the toxic drinking water contamination at Camp Lejeune.

The lawsuit alleges that the United States Government, through agents within the Department of Defense, knowingly exposed hundreds of thousands of Marines, sailors, their family members, and civilian employees to highly contaminated drinking water on the base at Camp Lejeune, while at the same time actively disseminating disinformation to those exposed in an effort to minimize the significance of the exposure.

The complaint, to be filed in federal court in the Eastern District of North Carolina, attaches numerous documentary exhibits in support of its allegations that the government knowingly, recklessly and/or negligently violated its own standards, rules and regulations by permitting the exposure to continue after the government was specifically warned the drinking water was "highly contaminated with . . . solvents!" and advised that "these appear[] to be at high levels and hence more important from a health standpoint. . . "

The lawsuit will allege that the Department of the Navy had regulations in place as early as 1963 which prohibited the contamination and which would have averted it had those regulations been obeyed; subsequently in 1974 the Commanding General of Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina put in place additional regulations governing the proper disposal of the very same chemicals which were discovered later to be contaminating the drinking water; had these regulations been obeyed, the contamination likewise would have been prevented. This same 1974 base order declared these "organic solvents" to be hazardous, the lawsuit states.

Many scientists have called the drinking water contamination at Camp Lejeune the worst in the nation's history. The contaminated drinking water was consumed by an estimated one million people.

The lawsuit will allege that exposure to the toxins caused numerous health problems including cancers, reproductive disorders and birth defects, among other maladies.

Joseph Anderson, Michael Pangia and Kevin Persio, the lawyers responsible for filing the suit, will answer questions of the media at a press conference to be held in front of the North Carolina State Capitol building, 1 East Edenton St. Raleigh, NC 27601 at 1:30 p.m. on Monday July 6, 2009. Call (336) 414-7958 for more information.

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I was station there in 1973. I now have CML - CHRONIC MYELOGENOUS LEUKEMIA in the Accelerated Phase, I was just diagnosed in Oct.2009

Tim King: Doug, please feel free to send me an email at <a href="mailto:tim@salem-news.com">tim@salem-news.com</a> I can hook you up with some people who are great resources regarding Lejeune. 

I was station there in 1973. I now have CML - CHRONIC MYELOGENOUS LEUKEMIA in the Accelerated Phase, I was just diagnosed in Oct.2009

was there 69-70-71-72 plenty of health problems brain tumors mass in chest many tumors removed ant to join lawsuit

I was there from 1982-1985. Who is handling the official class action lawsuit? please contact me at vanking@sbcglobal.net

I was there 1970-1972; 1976-1978; and 1981 through 1983; I was ill often while living there, etiology unknown until recently I was diagnosed with RCC. Thanks for bringing this to our attention

I was there in 85 and 86 and being in the infantry I drank lot's of water.

Anyone interested in signing a petition to get Congressman Hinchey of NY to presnt to the floor the TCe/PCE Reduction Act of 2009, please E-Mail me at JDAVIS92840@SBCGLOBAL.NET

was there in '66, after reading these articles I feel luckey to be alive today. Please continue airing this development. Any chance of declaring Rush Limbaugh a "toxic waste site" as well? The clean up would be massive.I couldn't help myself as the emperor wears no clothes.

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