(Reuters) - About 5,000 claims over contaminated water at North Carolina Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune have been filed in the first month since new legislation removed roadblocks for the cases ...

and others who may have been harmed by exposure to contaminated water at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune,” Navy Public Affairs Officer Lt. Cmdr. Joseph Keiley said in an email to CNN on Sunday.

Marine’s widow seeks justice after her husband’s death, saying it was caused by exposure to contaminated drinking water at Camp LeJeune.

Camp Lejeune was built in a sandy pine forest along the North Carolina coast in the early 1940s. Its drinking water was contaminated with industrial solvents from the early 1950s to 1985.

In a letter to the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry said computer modeling shows that drinking water ... the contamination at Camp Lejeune ...

Camp Lejeune was built in a sandy pine forest along the North Carolina coast in the early 1940s. Its drinking water was contaminated with industrial solvents from the early 1950s to 1985.

Camp Lejeune was built in a sandy pine forest along the North Carolina coast in the early 1940s. Its drinking water was contaminated with industrial solvents from the early 1950s to 1985.

1953: Contamination Has Begun In Hadnot Point Water System Hadnot point is another area that was part of the original Camp Lejeune design plans. To accommodate residents, the government ...

Prommasit and her late husband served and lived on Camp Lejeune for years, while consuming the contaminated water. Decades later, she started to notice her husband’s health declining.