Camp Lejeune Help Finally

Jim Fausone
Veteran Disability Lawyer

For years it has been known that the drinking water at Camp Lejuene was contaminated with a soup of chemicals from DOD operations at the site.  Congressional committees are wrapping up negotiations for expanding veterans’ health care by proposing VA treat veterans and dependents exposed to contaminated well water at Camp Lejeune, N.C.  Up to 750,000 people — Navy and Marine Corps members and their families — may have been exposed to water found to be contaminated by carcinogens from the 1950s into the 1980s.   This is one of those embarrassments by DOD that far too long to correct.  We have been hearing about veterans with contaminated water related diseases for over a decade.

VA was never going to wholesale approve disability claims for such exposure without Congressional action because of the cost implications.  Let’s hope that this sordid chapter is now behind us and Congress authorizes the funds and VA gets on with providing care and treatment to those exposed in a compassionate and timely manner.  Read more about this at the Navy Times article below.

http://www.navytimes.com/news/2012/06/military-lawmakers-propose-va-care-for-those-exposed-to-lejeune-water-062212w/