Camp Lejeune Chemicals

Chemicals at Camp Lejeune (FAQs) 1. What chemicals were found at the Tarawa Terrace Treatment Plant? Tetrachloroethylene (also known as perchloroethylene or “PCE”) was the main contaminant. The maximum level detected in drinking water was 215 parts per billion (μg/L)...

Camp Lejeune FAQs

Camp Lejeune water contamination health issues If you served at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune or Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) New River in North Carolina, you may have had contact with contaminants in the drinking water there. Scientific and medical evidence has...

Camp Lejeune Background

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...