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A new study of over 300,000 veterans found a strong connection between contaminated water at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and a higher risk of developing Parkinson's disease.
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.
Attorneys are filing claims on behalf of Marines and their families over the base’s water contamination. Here’s a breakdown of what happened and what’s next.
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.
Twenty years ago, with conflicts heating up in the Middle East, there was an increased focus on the refinement of warfighting tactics in urban population centers which led to the establishment of multiple Military Operations on Urbanized Terrain training,