Camp Lejuene Contamination

[Berta]

emailed from Colonel Dan:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070611/ap_on_...aGcPM29Qd52wPIE

"U.S. health officials here in Atlanta hope to finish a long-awaited study by year's end to examine whether the water tainted with solvents affected the health of children. It will influence the Pentagon's response to at least 850 pending legal claims by people who lived at the Marine base, officials said. The former residents, who together seek nearly $4 billion, believe their families were afflicted by water containing industrial solvents before the Marines shut off the bad wells in the mid-1980s."

(I wonder if they used the AO there to keep the OQs from being overgrown.) Then again the article says this:

"The scrutiny comes as federal regulators consider whether to tighten restrictions on solvents known as TCE, trichloroethylene, and PCE, tetrachloroethylene, common contaminants at military and private industrial sites. The chemicals were highlighted in a 1998 movie starring John Travolta, "A Civil Action," about a lawsuit against corporate polluters in Woburn, Mass"

Great movie -just like Love Canal situation-years and years of illnesses before any action took place to resolve---

And the movie "China Syndrome" was released the very same week of the Three Mile Island incident.

Fiction can often precede fact.

I feel any Marine situated at Le Jeune with disability of themselves or their families -who used the wells as only source of water- should get an IMO from an Environmental medical expert as to whether the contaminated water at the Camp caused their illnesses.

[hp1030]

I submitted a claim to the federal tort claim litigation on a Standard form 95 January of 2007, Since, they have answered and in essence they told me that since I was on active duty at the time I could not claim. they cited Feres v.US, 340 US 135 (1940. Any advice?

Thanks in advance.

[RockyA1911]

Yes, I have the best advice for you and you can take it to the bank!!!!

Contact this law firm:

Anderson Weber & Henry, P.C.

Trial Lawyers

And Law Offices of Michael J. Pangia

233 West Mountain Street

Kernersville, NC 27284

Toll Free 1-866-993-7958 and ask for MS Courtney South Ext. 106.

This is the firm that is representing Camp Lejeune victims and they fill out the Form 95 for you and send it to you for your signature.

I don't know if they have cut if off, but call and see. I am included in the 850 and my letter from them states they are suing for $4M on my behalf and $4M on behalf of my deceased infant son. All total they are suing for $4B. They told me they can prove it beyond a doubt by using DNA and it will show the toxins from the contaminated water. I think I will be lucky to get $25 to tell you the truth and that is on the high side.

I filed a claim with the VA, sending them all the facts of the Camp Lejeune records and by gastrointestinal problems and Barrett's esophagus were denied. The VA said there is absolutely no connection nor any evidence linking my GI problems or Barrett's Esophagus to the water contamination.

So we will see, but it should be settled within two years. This firm also were able to obtain classified documents from the EPA report that showed the high levels of 70 times allowable and also the DoD letter ordering the EPA to change those numbers to lower figures. The law firm got a specialist firm out of Europe to go to Camp Lejeune last year and test those wells and provide the results. Guess what, the Marine Corps and DoD lied again, the levels last year of the closed wells still exceeded 70 times the safe allowable amounts.

I too was a Marine in the 3rdBn, 2nd Mar, 2ndMarDiv at Camp Lejeune and I was told the same thing as you, that military cannot file. But, this law firm can file on your behalf and on the behalf of your dependents. So that is how you beat the government at their own SF 95 game.

Keep your fingers crossed. Good luck. Hope you can still get in but keep in mine they have it down to already just 850 they are representing and asking for $4B on their behalf's. I wouldn't mine if you get some of mine, but I don't know about the others or if added claimants reduce the others amounts. Just don't know.

[hp1030]

Rock:

I contacted this firm on January 2007, to this date I have no response from them. Not even a Phone mssg. I've included copy of the letter sent to them with a signed form 95.

Thanks for the accurate info. I will keep trying.

HP

January_17_Carta_Abogados_watersurvivors.doc

[RockyA1911]

Keep calling the toll free number as many times as you have to and make sure you get Courtney's extension. If still no reply just use the toll free number and tell whoever answers the phone that you have been trying to contact Courtney and she has not returned your messages.

They are very busy. I had to keep calling and calling, but finally she called me back and interviewed me. Then they sent a draft SF 95 for me to make any corrections. I sent that back and then they sent me a completed SF 95 that I signed and returned to them.

Stay on the phone until you get hold of her. That's what I did. They have a specific way they fill out the SF 95. In a class action suit such as this, it is the Law Firm that divvies up the money, not the government.

[hp1030]

Very well. Willco.

[Berta]

More info here:

http://www.tceblog.com/posts/1181727674.shtml

http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/sites/lejeune/faq_water.html

http://timethief.wordpress.com/2007/06/13/...s-camp-lejeune/

Lots of current info as well as the CBS and Katy Couric videos on this-

I believe the suits are not against the military at all (Feres Doctrine) but are class actions against the makers and/or suppliers of the TCE contaminants.

Just like AO-

The suit was against Dow Chem and the other manufacturers of the AO-

the mil could not be sued for using it.