Camp Lejeune Water Litigation – Client Update
Just a quick update: Your legal team meets with your claims review representative at the Department of the Navy (DON) each month. The DON continues to review claims that qualify for the Elective Option (EO) Settlement Program, including the injuries we outlined in our April newsletter. Those conditions include: Kidney Cancer, Liver Cancer, Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, Leukemias, […]
ATSDR Assessment of the Evidence for the Drinking Water Contaminants at Camp Lejeuneand Specific Cancers and Other Diseases
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) has a unique mandate under the Superfund laws to assess the presence and nature of health hazards at specific Superfund sites, to help prevent or reduce further exposure and the illnesses that result from such exposures, and to expand the knowledge base about health effects from exposure to hazardous substances.
Camp Lejeune Drinking Water-Fact Sheet
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), a federal public health agency,
has completed the public health assessment (PHA) of drinking water at U.S. Marine Corps Base
Camp Lejeune.
Camp Lejeune Drinking Water-PHA
This Public Health Assessment was prepared by ATSDR pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA or Superfund) section 104 (i)(6) (42 U.S.C. 9604 (i)(6)), and in accordance with our implementing regulations (42 C.F.R. Part 90). In preparing this document, ATSDR has collected relevant health data, environmental data, and community health concerns from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), state and local health and environmental agencies, the community, and potentially responsible parties, where appropriate.