Marine Corps officials are searching for 10,000 former residents of on-base housing at Camp Lejeune, NC who may have been exposed to water contaminated with substances linked to birth defects and cancer in children.
Two volatile organic compounds, tetrachlorethylene (PCE) and trichloroethylene, commonly used in dry cleaning as degreasers, were found in Camp Lejeune water systems that supplied on-base housing areas prior to 1985.