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Camp Lejeune & New River (MCAS) Water Contamination Lawsuit

robertswilson | August 5, 2022


After years of dragging their feet, the government has finally created a pathway for Marines and their family members to seek compensation for the decades long water contamination event at Camp Lejeune. This has been a long time coming and was way over due. Failing to care for our Veterans in a timely manner is just not acceptable.

Our Mississippi based law firm is a small boutique firm that prides itself upon giving individual attention to all of our clients. We are neighbors first, and injury lawyers second to none! Our firm is seeking to help a relatively small number Marines, their family members and civilian employees who have been harmed by this egregious water contamination event. If you would like to work with a smaller, boutique style law firm where we can guarantee individualized attention to your case, please give us a call today or visit our contact page by clicking here.

Please continue reading to learn more and whether or not you or your loved one may qualify for compensation due the contaminated drinking water at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina.

Injuries & Illnesses:

  • ALS Lou Gehrig’s Disease
  • Bladder Cancer
  • Multiple Myeloma 
  • Hodgkins Lymphoma
  • Lung Cancer
  • Breast Cancer
  • Birth Defects
  • Cervical Cancer
  • Other Cancers
  • Other Diseases & Conditions
  • Ovarian Cancer
  • Adult leukemia
  • Aplastic anemia and other myelodysplastic syndromes
  • Bladder cancer
  • Kidney cancer
  • Liver cancer
  • Multiple myeloma
  • Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
  • Parkinson’s disease
  • Bladder cancer
  • Breast cancer
  • Esophageal cancer
  • Female infertility
  • Hepatic steatosis
  • Kidney cancer
  • Leukemia
  • Miscarriage
  • Myelodysplastic syndromes
  • Neurobehavioral effects
  • Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
  • Renal toxicity
  • Scleroderma



Victims Exposed:


• Veterans, Family & workers

• Veterans Children

• Veterans Spouses

• Civilian Workers

Years & Location of Exposure:


• On base between 1953-1987

• Camp Lejuene

• MCAS (New River)



Chemicals Include But Are Not Limited To:


• Tetrachloroethylene (PCE-PERC)

• Trichloroethylene (TCE)

• Vinyl Chloride

• Benzene

What Happened?

According to the EPA, ABC One-Hour Cleaners served as a small family-owned dry-cleaning business. The Site consisted of three buildings that housed separate activities: the front, middle, and north buildings. The middle building housed the dry-cleaning operations which included the use of the washer and septic tank system. Tetrachloroethylene (PCE), a common dry-cleaning solvent, was used as a part of the operations and was improperly released into the soil and groundwater by the septic tank system. PCE was also improperly buried outside the middle building. [CA1]  These improper disposal practices resulted in soil and groundwater contamination.


According to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) at the CDC:

ATSDR’s Position on the Water Contamination at Camp Lejeune: It is ATSDR’s position that past exposures from the 1950s through February 1985 to trichloroethylene (TCE), tetrachloroethylene (PCE), vinyl chloride, and other contaminants in the drinking water at the Camp Lejeune likely increased the risk of cancers (kidney, multiple myeloma, leukemias, and others), adverse birth outcomes, and other adverse health effects of residents (including infants and children), civilian workers, Marines and Naval personnel at Camp Lejeune.

Click here to read the entire article from the ATSDR agency at the CDC.

Click here to to visit a U.S. Military website with an abundance of information and historical data about Camp Lejeune Water Contamination.

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