
Important Dates To Know When Filing A Camp Lejeune Justice Act Claim
Most Camp Lejeune water contamination victims or their surviving loved ones are unaware they may now sue the federal government
Saturday, November 19, 2022 - The time frame of the water contamination crisis at U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, established in 1942, has been set by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). According to the CDC, volatile organic chemicals (VOCs) were discovered in 1982, dating back to the 1950s when the contamination began. It was not until several years later that the Marine Corps shut down the water wells at Camp Lejeune. The discovery was, however, too little, too late. The CDC admits that millions of military and civilian employees and their family members, pregnant women, and young children drank water at Camp Lejeune that gave them cancer. Military leaders demonstrated an unheard-of degree of negligence, recklessness, and carelessness by failing to warn these innocent American families that their health was being destroyed by drinking Camp Lejeune water. The Marine Corps also failed to alert the people that had been exposed to the contaminants from 1953 to 1982. Camp Lejeune water attorneys are assisting all people that have been harmed by drinking Camp Lejeune water polluted by man-made contaminants. Celebrity attorney Erin Brokovich has been essential in helping to get the word out to the survivors of Camp Lejeune cancer victims. She has, along with other informed Camp Lejeune water attorneys, taken up the legal causes of US marines and civilians by holding town-hall meetings in and around the North Carolina marine installations. Other attorneys have set up Town hall meetings at local VFW and American Legion halls throughout the United States to educate the public on their legal rights. The Camp Lejeune Justice Act allows people to file a Camp Lejeune Water Contamination claim and if rejected, take the military to court.
Volatile organic compounds are classified as probably carcinogenic by the International Center for Cancer Research, a division of the World Health Organization, in Lyon France. The EPA states that VOC s are the primary source of groundwater contamination on and around military bases throughout the United States. According to the EPA, "Many VOCs are human-made chemicals that are used and produced in the manufacture of paints, pharmaceuticals, and refrigerants. VOCs typically are industrial solvents, such as trichloroethylene; fuel oxygenates, such as methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE); or by-products produced by chlorination in water treatment, such as chloroform. VOCs are often components of petroleum fuels, hydraulic fluids, paint thinners, and dry cleaning agents." VOCs are not the only carcinogens thought to have contaminated the Camp Lejeune drinking water. Carcinogenic PFAS forever chemicals from firefighting foam also have caused contamination levels thousands of times higher than the level thought to be safe. Firefighters have been developing cancer at a higher rate than others from training with and using firefighting foam and also from wearing fireproof and waterproof clothing treated with PFAS forever chemicals. PFAS forever chemicals have strong molecular bonds that make them water insolvable and prevent them from degrading in the air, water, and soil. PFAS forever chemical bioaccumulates in the human tissues to levels thought to cause cancerous tumors.