Toxic Tap Water: Fight for Answers Continues

Toxic Tap Water: Fight for Answers Continues (Added: March 17, 2010)

Getting help to pay medical bills has been a constant struggle for Marines who say they got sick because of toxic tap water at Camp Lejeune. But, a victory for one veteran could help others.. (more)

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Toxic Tap Water: Fight for Answers Continues

Getting help to pay medical bills has been a constant struggle for Marines who say they got sick because of toxic tap water at Camp Lejeune.But, a victory for one veteran could help others..

By: Chris Brown | WNCT
Published: March 17, 2010

Getting help to pay medical bills has been a constant struggle for Marines who say they got sick because of toxic tap water at Camp Lejeune.
But, a victory for one veteran could help others..
Last week, Paul Buckley, won his battle for financial help to treat a rare blood cancer he says is a direct result of the contaminated water.
Buckley won full disability for the disease, multiple myeloma, it is an incurable form of cancer.
While Buckley is getting help, he's one of only a few who have manage to win against the system.
For 13 years, Jerry Ensminger has fought, for one thing, truth.
He wants to know what was in the water at Camp Lejuene and who knew about it.
Ensminger feels good about one day getting those answers.
“It may take congress pulling it out of them, he says, “but we’ll get them.”
He takes small victories like last weeks in Massachusetts, because they help with the bad days.
He says he finds out new information all the time.
For example, take the fuel spills at the fuel farm at Hadlot Point.
It was originally thought that only 30 to 40 thousand gallons had spilled.
However, in minutes from a meeting on the issue in 1996, you can see the actual number was 800,000 gallons.
With spills of this size, occurring next to a well, pull those chemicals down into the aquifer.
Benzene is one of them and a known cancer causing agent, Ensminger thinks someone knew what was going on there but as a marine he knows it’s not the entire corp.
He presses on though, knowing that he will one day find what he’s been looking for.
He will find the truth.