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The Camp Lejeune water contamination problem occurred at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, North Carolina, from 1953 to 1987. During that time, United States Marine Corps (USMC) personnel and families at the base bathed in and ingested tap water contaminated with harmful chemicals at all concentrations from 240 to 3,400 times current safe levels.
Weldon Spring Ordnance Works. West Virginia Ordnance Works. Williams Air Force Base. Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Wurtsmith Air Force Base. Categories: Superfund sites. Formerly Used Defense Sites. Military installations of the United States in the United States.
The Red Hill water crisis is a public health crisis and environmental disaster caused by fuel leaking from the Red Hill Underground Fuel Storage Facility into the freshwater aquifer underneath the island of Oʻahu. [1] Residents in military housing in and around Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam began reporting chemical contamination in their ...
December 1, 2023 at 5:16 AM. MASHPEE — A new study detailing the scope of so-called “forever chemicals” in private groundwater wells near military bases across the country has found 17 wells ...
The U.S. Department of Defense plans to install two more groundwater treatment systems at a former Michigan military base to control contamination from so-called forever chemicals, U.S. Rep ...
Feindt is just one of 93,000 military members who, along with their families, have been impacted since 14,000 gallons of a JP-5 jet fuel-water mixture from WWII-era fuel tanks at Red Hill ...
Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune [1] ( / ləˈʒɜːrn / luh-ZHERN or / ləˈʒuːn / luh-ZHOON) [2] [3] is a 246-square-mile (640-square-kilometer) [4] United States military training facility in Jacksonville, North Carolina. Its 14 miles (23 kilometers) of beaches make the base a major area for amphibious assault training, and its location ...
Groundwater treatment systems will be installed near a military base in northern Michigan to address contamination from high levels of toxic, widely used “forever chemicals,” the U.S ...