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Water Pollution on a Marine Base in North Carolina

The water at this vast marine base in north carolina was contaminated over thirty plus years by an off-base dry cleaners leaky storage tanks and chemical dumping 19 fifty three to nineteen eighty seven potentially how big is this over a million people were likely exposed to this toxic water during that time period. The diseases now potentially linked to those chemicals in the water on the base are kidney cancer, birth defects also now potentially link to those chemicals  and great sexins mom saw one of the commercials their first inkling that camp lejoon's water might be to blame for what happened to him so i spent the summer there ineteen seventy seven with my father who was in the marines.

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