Government Admits Camp Lejeune Water Is Tainted, Denies It Is ‘Necessarily Unsafe’

(November 21, 2023, 12:51 PM EST) -- RALEIGH, N.C. — The U.S. government filed an answer in North Carolina federal court on Nov. 20 saying that while it admits that U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune “may have provided contaminated water” to people who used the base between 1953 and 1987, it denies that the extent of the contamination is “undisputed and well-documented” or “that a measured or simulated concentration above” a maximum contaminant level (MCL) “is necessarily unsafe.”...