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From: Webster, Timothy ][/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGEADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
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Subject: RE: Call about Dioxane
He isn't available Friday. Looks like your calendar would only allow tomorrow at noon. May I schedule this?
He also wants to include the mayor of Pittsboro. Is that ok?
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From: Holman, Sheila
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Subject: Fm/:Call about Dioxane

Can you call Mick Noland and schedule a call for Friday, if possible? Please include Linda Culpepper in the
meeting invitation. Thank you.
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Sent: Monday, August 14, 2017 10:11 AM
To: Holman, Sheila
Subject: FW: Call about Dioxane
Hi Sheila,
Not sure how we managed thus far with me having your email entered incorrectly, I'm sure this one will go through.
Thanks, Mick
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From: Mick Noland
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2017 1043 AM
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Cc: 'Shelia Holman ([e-mail]
Subject: FW: Call about Dioxane
Jay/Linda,
Wanted you to be aware of my email to Shelia, I haven't gotten a response. Another editorial today (see highlight). As I
said below in my email to Shelia, "I'm requesting that the State re-evaluate their response to the Dioxane issue to see if
more can be done sooner to get it out of our drinking water."
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Our View: The fight for a cleaner river needs a strong leader
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Posted Aug 3, 2017 at 7:43 PNI
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The river that runs through this region ties together a host of fliterests, needs and concerns. What happens upstream and
downstream can have a profound effect on our lives.
The Cape Fear is the state's largest and arguably most important river basin. It wilids through 200 miles of North Carolina, from
the Piedmont, across the edge of the Sandhills and down through the coastal plain, eventually flowing into the Atlantic near
Southport. On its way, the river touches 29 of the state's 100 counties. The basin covers 9,000 square miles. It also is the most
industrialized river basin in the state, which is part of its wealth and its problems.
One institution is trying to tic together all the interests of the river basin's residents. The Cape Fear River Assembly was
rounded in 1973 to advocate for good management of the river, its tributaries and the land around it. The assembly has kept a
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fairly low profile in recent years — too low, considering the serious problems that the river and its users are facing. But that
appears to be changing. The assembly will hold three forums in late September to educate residents about their river and to hear
their concerns. 'AVe'd like Poo -Ole to learn more about the river," assembly Executive Director Tom Hoban told an Observer
reporter, "why it's vital to our lives and vital to our economics, and appreciate how some decisions individuals make can affect
the river.',
The forums will bring in experts about the river basin to give presentations. Hoban says he expects to hear different concerns
from the river's different regions — issues like runoff and new construction in the Triangle area, flooding and water supply in
the Fayetteville area, and fisheries and recreation in the 'Aii1mington area.
We hope, though, that there is also a common thread tying together all of us who live in the river basin: industrial pollution. We
have known for several years now that 1,4-dioxane, acarcinogenic ingredient i paint thinners and other commercial products,
carcinogenic ingredient in
is found in the Cape Fear's water, sometimes at worrisome levels. It appears to be coming from somewhere in the Piedmont,
which means it likely affects most of the basin — from which thousands of residents get their drinking water. None or our
municipal water -treatment plants have the equipment to filter the dioxane out, which means it's coming out of the taps in many
households throughout the basin. The state has been trying to track down the source for several years, but with no apparent
success,
And now we also have GenX, a chemical related to the manufacture of T cf1on,,%vh1ch is produced at the former DuPont, now
Chemours, plant on the Cumberland-Bladen count,, line. It is a likely carcinogen. Researchers have also found niany related
compounds in river water. Like the dioxane, there is no practical way to filter it out of our water supply. Residents in the
Wilmington area are outraged, especially by the revelation that the local plant may have been dumping GenX into the river for
three decades. Some of them are holding a protest at the plant site on N.C. 87 today.
In addition to all its other problems, the Cape Fear is an industrial sewer, and residents throughout the basin should be furious.
We find it surprising that they aren't, and that may be from a lack of education. )N,'e hope the Cape Fear River Assembly will
provide more of that education and help lead efforts to clean up the river's troubled waters. It should begin with the toxic
industrial chemicals that are flowing out ofour faucets. That's the issue that should be at the top ofthe assembly's agenda at
every one of its meetings.
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From: Mick Noland
am -
Tried to call, your voice mail was broken up and | couldn't tell what your schedule was. | wanted to talk with you about
the Dioxane initiative. I can't help but observe the way the State rushed to action on GenX, throwing everything you
have at the problem toget the GenXuut ofthe water. | know the Dioxane issue is more complicated, but it's been
months getting equipment, setting standards and sounds like it will be months before letters go out to the suspect cities
to even start monitoring. Add to that there are many more people drinking Dioxane (including Wilmington) than
GenX. Why are the responses to similarly suspect carcinogens so starkly different? | have attached another op-ed piece
that ran this past weekend more or less asking the same question. | think time is running out for the State to act
definitively on Dioxane before it becomes another public relations fiasco for the State (especially considering how long
the State has known about this and sd|| has no monitoring data from the suspect cities or definitive information auto
which industries are discharging the material into the city'swaste water treatment fad|ities] Another point is the high
levels that showed up in Pittsborothat were alarming. |'m not sure what their levels are these days. | have attached a
power point presentation that Detlef Kanappe put together relative to a study PWC and other Urban Water Consortium
members funded to try and get some answers rather than waiting on the State to get something going. The levels that
were showing up in Pittsboro were alarming. |'m requesting that the State re-evaluate their response to the Dioxane
issue tosee ifmore can bedone sooner toget itout ofour drinking water.
Thank you for your consideration,
Mick
Mick Noland, PE
Chief Operations Officer
Water Resources Division
Public Works Commission ofthe
City ofFayetteville
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POBox 1O89
Fayetteville, NCZO3UZ
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