The Navy Has Another Camp Lejeune Water Contamination Problem On Their Hands

The Department of the Navy has revealed that lethal water contamination has occurred at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii.

Wednesday, January 17, 2024 - About 100,000 people may have been exposed to contaminate water if the Navy's dates are to be believed. No one knows for sure yet what the military knew and when they knew it. They may have ignored the problem for years and the cause of the contamination is not yet determined. The Navy says a Nov. 20, 2021 jet fuel spill at the Red Hill military fuel storage site on the base was the cause of the contamination. benzene and xylene have been detected in the water so far and about 6000 people have become seriously ill. Army Major Mandy Feindt and her family of four have all become sickened by the water and were recently interviewed by SpectrumLocalNews.com in Charlotte, North Carolina, telling them, "My life has never been the same since I saw that note because the very next day Patrick and Trip ended up in the hospital. Vomiting coming out of both ends, so sick. And two days later Palmer and I end up in the hospital," Feindt said. One attorney has filed two lawsuits that allege the Navy knew the water was contaminated but did not warn people on the base. The lawsuit seeks damages but, moreover, seeks to have the ban on suing the Federal government in such matters lifted in the same fashion that the Camp Lejeune Justice Act overturned the ban on US Marines suing the government for developing water contamination cancer and other debilitating illnesses. Service members are restricted from filing a lawsuit against the government if their illness was diagnosed later than two years after the water pollution was deemed to have taken place.

The Pearl Harbor-Hickam situation parallels water contamination at Camp Lejeune. There, more than one million US Marines, civilian employees, and others may have developed cancer from drinking ordinary tap water from 1953 to 1987. The Camp Lejeune Justice Act allows servicemembers the right to file a claim for up to $450,000 if they suffer from one of more than one dozen forms of water contamination cancer. About 120,000 claims have been filed and most have gone unattended, allowing them to pursue their claims in court by filing a Camp Lejeune water lawsuit. Lawsuits filed allege the government knew but did nothing to inform plaintiffs about the water contamination on the base. The Navy blames a local dry cleaning establishment for improperly disposing of toxic dry cleaning fluids into a local storm drain. Two of the area's main water treatment facilities tested positive for volatile organic compounds and benzene, much like the situation at the Pearl Harbor base. Other lawsuits allege the cause of the pollution was improperly storing hazardous waste materials on the base by burying them. More than 1100 Camp Lejeune water cancer lawsuits have already been filed in the Eastern District of North Carolina.

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