When Laurel Bay families didn't know who to trust, they turned to each other online
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Buried: Contamination, confusion in a Beaufort military community
Laurel Bay residents battle with leukemia, infertility and rare diseases. Is contamination the cause?
Read more in this nine-part, special investigation by The Island Packet & The Beaufort Gazette.
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Like many former residents of Laurel Bay, Michelle Conner was worried that her chronic illnesses had something to do with the contamination in the Marine Corps neighborhood. And like many former residents, she turned to social media — not military officials — to find answers.
This is the seventh story in the nine-part series — Buried: Contamination, confusion in a Beaufort military community.
In the 1950s, more than a thousand tanks filled with heating oil were buried underneath Laurel Bay, a Marine housing community in Beaufort County. Decades passed by, and those tanks corroded. Fuel leaked into the soil, contaminating the ground. Now Laurel Bay residents battle with leukemia, infertility and rare diseases. And they can't help but wonder, is contamination the cause?
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This story was originally published December 12, 2017 at 10:45 AM with the headline "When Laurel Bay families didn't know who to trust, they turned to each other online."
