Lejeuene Resident Receives Disability
Week of December 26, 2011
A former Camp Lejeune Marine "has a medley of maladies, many of which he believes can be traced to his exposure to contaminated drinking water during the 13 years he spent on base." A letter mailed in October from the Department of Veterans Affairs has granted him 100-percent disability for colon cancer and 20 percent for bladder cancer Lawson's time at Lejeune as a connection. His cancers could have been caused by the base the drinking water supply, which was contaminated with the organic solvents and/or by being exposed to leaking gas "at a warehouse building in the Hadnot Point Industrial Area." For more information on the drinking water at Camp Lejeune, visit the Marine Corps' Camp Lejeune Historic Drinking Water webpage.
