Contaminated Water Supplies at Camp Lejeune: Assessing Potential Health Effects

National Research Council

doi:10.17226/12618

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Contaminated Water Supplies at Camp Lejeune

Assessing Potential Health Effects

(2009)

In the early 1980s, two water-supply systems on the Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina were found to be contaminated with the industrial solvents trichloroethylene (TCE) and perchloroethylene (PCE). The water systems were supplied by the Tarawa Terrace and Hadnot Point watertreatment plants, which served enlisted-family housing, barracks for unmarried service personnel, base administrative offices, schools, and recreational areas. The Hadnot Point water system also served the base hospital and an industrial area and supplied water to housing on the Holcomb Boulevard water system (full-time until 1972 and periodically thereafter).

This book examines what is known about the contamination of the water supplies at Camp Lejeune and whether the contamination can be linked to any adverse health outcomes in former residents and workers at the base.

Contributor(s): National Research Council; Division on Earth and Life Studies; Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology; Committee on Contaminated Drinking Water at Camp Lejeune

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National Research Council. 2009. Contaminated Water Supplies at Camp Lejeune: Assessing Potential Health Effects. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/12618.

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338 pages | 8.5 x 11 |

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Paperback: 978-0-309-13699-0
Ebook: 978-0-309-14369-1

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/12618

Chapters		skim
Front Matter	i-xx
Public Summary and Context	1-13
Summary	14-22
1 Introduction	23-27
2 Exposure to Contaminants in Water Supplies at Camp Lejeune	28-66
3 Systemic Exposures to Volatile Organic Compounds and Factors Influencing Susceptibility to Their Effects	67-89
4 Review of Toxicologic Studies	90-133
5 Review of Epidemiologic Studies	134-164
6 Epidemiologic Studies of Solvent-Contaminated Water Supplies	165-179
7 Integration of Findings from the Toxicologic and Epidemiologic Literature	180-183
8 Studies of the Camp Lejeune Population	184-197
References	198-236
Appendix A: Biographic Information on the Committee on Contaminated Drinking Water at Camp Lejeune	237-240
Appendix B: Participants at Public Sessions	241-242
Appendix C: Supplemental and Supporting Data for Chapter 2	243-257
Appendix D: Review of Other Chemical Contaminants of Concern	258-271
Appendix E: Details of Epidemiologic Studies on Trichloroethylene and Perchloroethylene	272-318

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