Documents: Tanks leaked fuel near Camp Lejeune well (Former Marine Base Refueling Facility)

[kpete]

Source: McClatchy

Documents: Tanks leaked fuel near Camp Lejeune well

By Barbara Barrett | McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — Federal scientists studying the history of water contamination at Camp Lejeune, N.C., have learned of another source of leaking fuel — this one less than a football field away from a drinking well that once served thousands of Marines and their families.

The well was closed in December 1984 after benzene was found in the water.

The source of contamination that scientists now are exploring was once an on-base refueling station within an area of the Marine base known as Hadnot Point. The refueling facility, Building 1115, contained seven underground storage tanks that ranged in size from 1,000 to 5,000 gallons.

The extent of the contamination on the Marine base — and its sources — are important to federal scientists at the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, an arm of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, who are trying to understand the health effects of the contaminants in the base's water.




Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/06/24/96517/documents-tanks-leaked-fuel-near.html

[cactusfractal]

1. If you are a Marine, Sailor or dependent who was aboard Camp Lejeune....

http://www.tftptf.com/

Good info free of the taint of PAO meddling.

[Old Troop]

2. I think this sort of thing applies to all military and naval bases. Camp Edwards/Otis AFB

on Cape Cod is responsible for contaminating the water on most of the Cape and when Ft. Devens (MA) closed, contractors spent more than five years cleaning up former motor pools, buried and discarded ammunition and fuel storage sites.

[awoke_in_2003]

3. to paraphrase...

the country that doesn't know how to treat its veterans has no business making more.