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Subject: FW: N.C. drinking water tainted with chemical byproduct for decades? CBS Morning News
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Subject: N.C. drinking water tainted with chemical byproduct for decades? CBS Morning News
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Some 6o,000 Wilmington, N.C., residents get their drinking water from the Cape Fear River.
DuPont and its spinoff company Chemours manufacture chemicals at a plant upstream from
the city.
The Plant is situated on a 2,loo-acre property on the Cape Fear lei-%er in Fayettexilleo It is
there where a chemical called. GenX mm a potentially cancer -causing substance that is a
by-product of DuPont and Chemours' manufacturing processes -- is produced.
Wilmington residents are demanding to know if those toxic chemicals are making their way
downriver into the city's drinking water,
The Cape Fear Public Utili T Authodt co-authored a three-year study on the chemical's
elevated presence in the water. But as CBS Nevws' Jericka Duncan reports, the findings were
never made available to the general public -- not even to WiliningtonMay-or Pill Saffo,
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Saffo met with Chemours officials, and couldn't believe what he heard: "We were alarmed..
And we want to know how long that compound or that chemical had been dispersed into the
Cape Fear River. And they told us since 1980."
Last week, a city council meeting in Wilmington was over capacity, as neighbors demanded
their leaders hold Chemours accountable.
"Why has this been allowed to go on for so long?" asked one citizen, Kalli Smith. I have been
drinking this water my entire life."
Though they aren't pointing fingers at DuPont or Chemours, Wilmington's self-proclaimed
"cancer moms" showed up in full force.
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Amy Herrman's son, Jacob, had leukemia, and. received chemo for three years. "It just seems
odd that we're having to fight for clean water after we've fought for our children's lives,"
Herrman said.
Lisa Grogan's son, Nathan, was diagnosed at age four with Wilms, a rare kidney cancer.
"Because of what our kids have been through, I think it's hard for people to look at us and say
the water's probably OK, or, there's probably not too much toxin in there to cause health
effects,11said Grogan.
There are currently tic) federal drinking water standards for GenX. And because of an EPA
rule, Chemours' release of GenX into the Cape Fear River for nearly four decades may have
been perfectly legal; that's because it is a byproduct of another substance.
"There is a loophole that needs to be looked at by Congress to make certain that we have safe
drinking water in this country," said Mayor Saffo.
The long-term health effects of GenX on humans are unknown, but studies submitted to the
EPA by DuPont between 2oo6 and 2013 show it caused tumors and reproductive problems in
lab animals.
The company says GenX is a safer alternative to another DuPont chemical called C8,,"Thich it
no longer makes.
DuPont was forced to pay the largest fine in EPA history -- i.6.5 million -- for failing to report
C8's substantial risk to 1�11man health. And this past February, DuPont and Chemours doled.
out more than $670 million to settle a class-action lawsuit involving C8 water contamination
in the Ohio River Valley.
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,Jennifer Adams, the ,ice chair of the Cape Fear Public Utility Authority, was asked why the
water company never made its Olen X study public.
"There were no alarm bells set off," she said. "There wasn't anything indicated in the report
that indicated immediate action was needed."
CBS News has learned Adams worked as a chemical engineer at DuPont from 1990 to 2001.
CBS affiliate WWAY asked Adams, 7 ? Given your connection to DuPont, do you know anybody
that works at the Cheniours plant?"
T'Um, yes, I do."
"Ilave there been any discussions between any board members including yourself and anyone
at Chemours9 Or DuPont?"
"No," Adams replied.
Water inspectors are testing the current levels of GenX in Wilmington's water, but results are
not expected until late next month. It is an excruciating wait for a mayor whose community is
desperate to know if their water is safe.
"We don't know what this is going to do to us, that have been drinking it for long periods of
time," Saffo said. "How long has it been in the river? Since i-98o, yes, but how much of it has
been in the river?"
Chemours says it will now voluntarily "capture, remove and safely dispose of wastewater
containing the byproduct GenX.
The company also told CBS News it continues to believe that emissions from its plant have not
impacted the safety of drinking water.
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