Warnings About Lejeune's Tainted Water Unheeded For Years -- McClatchy NewsWASHINGTON — For 30 years, thousands of Marines and their family members at Camp Lejeune, N.C., drank, cooked with and bathed in water that was laced with dangerous chemicals, but when outside contractors began raising questions about the toxic water, documents show, base officials rebuffed them and ignored the warnings or ordered more tests.
The worst-offending wells finally were shut down in November 1984, more than four years after the first warnings. In that time, more than 2,500 babies may have been carried in utero on the base or born at Camp Lejeune hospital, according to estimates by federal scientists.
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My Comment: This is an outrage. It is bad enough that our soldiers may at times not receive the best when their needs demand it, but to expose their families to dangerous living conditions is reprehensible .... and to ignore the warnings in which tens of thousands are at risk is almost criminal.
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