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.

[RockyA1911]

Berta,

Go here, http://www.watersurvivors.com/default.asp

This is the website "THE STAND" and you can get all the info regarding the suit and contamination health causes etc. This will help you check into it a little easier.

[hp1030]

Just to clarify, Please.

Is it true that all active duty personnel stationed and submitted to this deadly water at Camp Lejeune are prevented and excluded to claim due to the Feres V. US doctrine??

That seems to be the answer to my claim on a Form 95, The Department of the Navy sent me March 2007.

Basically the answer was a "We deduct You were on active duty, Sorry"

If you were not we need more info.

[RockyA1911]

"Those that represent themselves have a fool for a lawyer" -- Abe Lincoln

That is why a law firm filed my claim for me and they explained the military thing......in otherwords it depends on the circumstances and degree of injury that pertained to illegal applications by the military.

Other than the VA, never represent yourself in a claim against the U.S. Government or U.S. Military and DoD.

In the two cases where you both filed the 95 yourselves directly to the Dept of the Navy and DOJ, Abe Lincoln was right!!!!

Not trying to be abrasive to any of you.....just sayin' is all!

If you do desire to pursue this, Get representation and don't even think of filing the 95 yourself.

Edited June 18, 2007 by RockyA1911

[augoldminer]

Good luck proving to the VA that trichloroethylene caused health problem.

I just got my denial letter from the VA for service connected and i believe that my castleman's disease was caused by TCE and i was exposed to levels 10000 times higher then the camp lejeune personal.

The navy used TCE as a cleaning solvent for equipment and we used the pure stuff. cleaned oil and grease of our bodies with it all the time being told it was harmless.

The DOD's and VA's position is to denie all health problems due to TCE

even though they have banned TCE due to health problems.

A lawsuit against the manufacturers may be the only way to break this with the VA.