By National Research Council, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Committee on Contaminated Drinking Water at Camp Lejeune
Within the early Eighties, water-supply platforms at the Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina have been discovered to be infected with the economic solvents trichloroethylene (TCE) and perchloroethylene (PCE). The water structures have been provided through the Tarawa Terrace and Hadnot aspect watertreatment crops, which served enlisted-family housing, barracks for single carrier group of workers, base administrative workplaces, faculties, and leisure parts. The Hadnot element water procedure additionally served the bottom health facility and an business region and provided water to housing at the Holcomb side road water approach (full-time until eventually 1972 and periodically thereafter). This e-book examines what's recognized concerning the infection of the water offers at Camp Lejeune and even if the illness might be associated with any adversarial well-being results in former citizens and staff on the base.
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On the other hand, the possibility that health effects have been produced by the contaminant exposures at Camp Lejeune cannot be ruled out. Some effects of TCE or PCE exposure might have occurred below the level of detection in toxicologic studies, which focused on single contaminant exposures at high doses, used genetically homogeneous animal strains, and necessarily involved extrapolation across species. In addition, the population exposed at Camp Lejeune is more diverse and possibly more susceptible than those who have been exposed to TCE and PCE in occupational settings, and the actual concentrations of PCE and TCE and the presence of additional water contaminants are poorly documented and could thus be higher or more complex than the limited historical measurements suggest.
Some effects of TCE or PCE exposure might have occurred below the level of detection in toxicologic studies, which focused on single contaminant exposures at high doses, used genetically homogeneous animal strains, and necessarily involved extrapolation across species. In addition, the population exposed at Camp Lejeune is more diverse and possibly more susceptible than those that have been exposed to TCE and PCE in occupational settings, and the actual concentrations of PCE and TCE and the presence of additional water contaminants are poorly documented and could thus be higher or more complex than the limited historical measurements suggest.
Toxicologic studies report effects of exposure to high doses of TCE on the nervous system, such as central nervous system depression, attention deficits, alterations in visual evoked potentials, and other neurologic outcomes. Neurologic effects in toxicologic studies of PCE include anesthetic effects at high doses and changes in behavior and neurochemical markers at lower doses. Epidemiologic studies provide limited/suggestive evidence of an association between inhalation exposure to solvents and neurobehavioral effects; most of the reported effects were concurrent with exposure, and there has been little study of whether neurobehavioral effects persist after exposure ends.