[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, VOCs: Camp Lejeune (NC) workshop in Charlotte, NC

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Worries about water continue
Former Lejeune Marines share health concerns about contamination at 
workshop.

By April Bethea
Charlotte Observer (NC)
August 1, 2010

Former Marine Sgt. David Jackson said his doctor was stumped.

He couldn't find a reason behind a series of health ailments that had 
plagued Jackson, including a weight gain of more than 100 pounds. The 
doctor, Jackson said, had also treated other Marines for various conditions.

Now, Jackson said, he worries the health problems can be traced to water 
contamination at Camp Lejeune, the military base in Eastern North 
Carolina where he'd spent more than three years in the mid-1980s.

As Congress and health agencies probe the water at the base, members of 
the Marines and their families say they're trying to learn more about 
the contamination and its lingering effects.

Jackson, of Belmont, was among 50 people who gathered Saturday at a 
Charlotte hotel to listen to advocates Mike Partain, a male breast 
cancer survivor from Florida, and Jerry Ensminger, a retired master 
sergeant in White Lake whose daughter died in 1985 of childhood leukemia.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2010/08/01/1594510/worries-about-water-continue.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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