A Local Dry Cleaning Company May Have Polluted the Camp Lejeune Water Treatment Facilities With PFAS Forever Chemicals

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Dry cleaners all over the United States may be poisoning the local drinking water supplies

Tuesday, April 19, 2022 - A local dry cleaning establishment near the Camp Lejeune Marine Base may have polluted the local drinking water treatment facility and the local community in general, with carcinogenic PFAS forever chemicals. "The Tarawa Terrace treatment plant was contaminated with PCE (perchloroethylene or tetrachloroethylene). The EPA maximum containment level of this organic compound is 5 parts per billion(ppb) in drinking water. The maximum level of contamination at Tarawa Terrace was 215 ppb. It's believed that possible sources of the contamination came from solvents used at an off-base dry cleaning company located close by; on-base units that used TCE to clean its equipment; and underground fuel storage tanks that were leaking." according to PRNewsWire.com. It is critical that veterans and their families that have been sickened while working or living on or near the Camp Lejeune military base contact a PFAS water attorney to register their intent to hold the US Governermt accountable for their negligence.

Thousands of families that have been sickened by drinking the tap water from or near the Camp Lejeune Marine Base in North Carolina may soon be able to sue the Federal Government for damages. The Camp Lejeune Justice Act is part of the Honor Our Pact Act which recently sailed through the US House of Representatives and now needs only a rubber-stamp of approval by the US Senate. The act would overturn the ridiculously short time called the Statute of Limitations which prohibited those who lived on or near the Marine base from pursuing legal action against the government. People who live, work, or played on or near the base have used the water that has been polluted by toxic, carcinogenic forever chemicals for more than the last forty years, spewed into the local drinking water supply dry cleaners, and also by burn pits using firefighting foam.

Now is the time for veterans and their family members who are suffering from cancer or their children who have developed autism, obesity, or other childhood developmental disorders to contact a Camp Lejeune water contamination attorney and register to file a lawsuit. It is now a fact admitted by the US Department of Defense that the toxicity of the water generated at the plant exceeded the maximum allowable by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) thousands of times. Cuddingtonlaw.com reported to their readers, "Marine Corps military members and their families living at the base bathed in the polluted water and ingested tap water that was contaminated with dangerous chemicals with high concentration levels; approximately 240--3,400 times higher than permitted by safety standards." ABC One Hour Cleaners just outside of the Camp Lejeune Marine Base use tetrachloroethylene (PCE) and trichloroethylene (TCE) to launder military uniforms and all other forms of dry cleaning needs. The EPA considers dry cleaners "producers of hazardous waste," and require they follow strict procedures for the containment and disposal of the toxic chemicals. Dry cleaners "must follow regulations issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under a law called the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)," according to the EPA.

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