An Assessment of the feasibility of conducting future epidemiological studies at USMC Base Camp Lejeune

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• Personal Author:
  Bove, Frank J. ; Ruckart, Perri Zeitz
• Corporate Authors:
  United States. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. Division of Health Studies.
• Description:
  From the 1950s through the mid-1980s, persons residing or working at the U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, were potentially exposed to drinking water contaminated with volatile organic compounds (VOCs). The heavily contaminated wells were shut down in February 1985. In 2005, a panel of independent scientists convened by ATSDR recommended that the agency ; • identify cohorts of individuals with potential exposure, including adults who lived on base; adults who resided off base, but worked on base; children who lived on base; and those who may have been exposed while in utero; and ; • conduct a feasibility assessment to address the issues involved in planning future studies at the base. ; In response, ATSDR has prepared this assessment of the feasibility of conducting future epidemiological studies at the base. ATSDR visited the Naval Health Research Center (NHRC), the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC), and the DOD Education Activity storage facility at Fort Benning, Georgia, to determine whether available databases could identify adults and children who lived at the base, or civilians who worked at the base, during the period when drinking water was contaminated with VOCs. ATSDR also convened a panel of epidemiologists with experience in military and occupational cohort studies to provide recommendations on future studies. ; feasibility_assessment_Lejeune.pdf
• Subjects:
  • Drinking Water
  • Environmental Exposure
  • Epidemiologic Studies
  • Feasibility Studies
  • Groundwater
  • Military Facilities
  • Military Personnel
  • Risk Assessment
  • Water Pollutants, Chemical
  • Water Pollution
  More +
• Document Type:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  Camp Lejeune, NC
• Pages in Document:
  78 numbered pages in various pagings
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/112107/cdc_112107_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 542.64 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:201d43a2be14c27925be7fc7ce6446eec164a35cbbabe8ce9bcdd5737eafdc41