Once President Biden signed the Honoring our PACT Act into law on August 10, 2022, the countdown began on a two-year window for veterans and civilians injured by toxic water contamination at Camp Lejeune to file claims. The Environmental Protection Agency designated the 156,000-acre Marine Corps Base as Superfund Site on October 4, 1989. Anyone…
In the early 1980s, the Marine Corps discovered two water-supply systems on the Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in Onslow County, North Carolina were contaminated with volatile organic compounds (VOCs). On October 4, 1989 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) added the base to the National Priorities List as a Superfund Site. Military service members and civilians…
