Jeff Freuler News Today

It is estimated that more than 1 million people were likely exposed to the toxic waters on Camp Lejeune.

It is estimated that more than 1 million people were likely exposed to the toxic waters on Camp Lejeune.

Half of the estimated 1 million people likely exposed to toxic waters on Camp Lejeune have filed claims asking for the government to make right what happened to its Marines and their families. But no offers from the government have been extended, so the claimants have been forced into litigation.

It is estimated that more than 1 million people were likely exposed to the toxic waters on Camp Lejeune over 34 years.

In 1953, toxic chemicals had begun seeping through the ground into two of the eight water treatment plants on Camp Lejeune, the Marine Corps base near Jacksonville, N.C., where Joan Palumbo and her husband, Fred, lived.