Marines At Camp Lejeune May Have Died From Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma As A Result Of Drinking Tap Water

Marines with differing types of cancer and their surviving loved ones are filing Camp Lejeune water lawsuits

Wednesday, September 7, 2022 - Everyone who worked or resided at, or attended school or daycare at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina from 1953 until 1987 was exposed to volatile organic compounds, benzene, and methyl chloride ... all cancer-causing substances in their everyday drinking water. Scientific research has shown that these substances increased the risk of developing non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a debilitating and often cancer of the lymph nodes. One of the toxins detected in the Camp Lejeune water supply is TCE, which has been directly associated with lymphoma when people ingest it regularly and for more than a year. Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma is one of the deadly diseases that are high on the Veteran's Administration list of types of cancer automatically presumed to have been caused by drinking Camp Lejeune tap water. According to the Mayo Clinic, Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma is a type of cancer that originates in your lymphatic system, which is part of the body's germ-fighting immune system. White blood cells called lymphocytes can develop tumors (growths) throughout the body when non-lymphoma Hodgkin's is present. Exposure to carcinogens in tap water for more than three decades may have contributed to non-Hodgkin lymphoma in Marines, civilian residents, independent contractors working on the base, and employees at Camp Lejeune. Thanks to the recent passage of the Camp Lejeune Justice Act, victims of Camp Lejeune non-Hodgkin lymphoma can now file a Camp Lejeune water lawsuit and sue the government and get monetary damages for their losses. The new law does not permit seeking punitive damages, however, there is no limit on the monetary reimbursement one may receive for past, present, and future lost wages, medical expense reimbursement, pain and suffering, and other damages one may have suffered directly as a result of the government's negligence, carelessness, and recklessness.

Internal memos indicate that Camp Lejeune Marine and Navy officials knew for more than a decade that the local water treatment facilities were contaminated from several sources and did little or nothing to warn Marines to avoid coming into contact with the water. The EPA mandated the USMC start water testing in 1980 and a year later reported finding carcinogens in it. At the time, the contamination was attributed mainly to a nearby dry cleaning company illegally dumping their cleaning solution waste into the nearby storm drain. Other possible sources of contamination were identified as improperly disposing of the military's equipment cleaning solution and leaky, unlined petroleum storage tanks. Whatever the source of the contamination, millions of people at Camp Lejeune drank, cooked with, and bathed in water contaminated with deadly chemicals in concentrations more than 300 times the Environmental Protection Agency's allowable limit. In 1982, The Camp Lejeune Base Commander was handed a report by an independent water testing lab indicating alarming levels of VOC water contamination, which military officials chose to ignore instead of reporting it to the EPA. Unsatisfied with the Marine report, the EPA commissioned another lab in 1984 to examine the water and found the presence of not only TCE, but also PERC, benzene, and methyl chloride, all suspected to be carcinogenic.

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