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From: susan massengale <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:46:42 -0500
To: Connie Brower <[e-mail]>
CC: Sandra Moore <[e-mail]>, Nikki Remington <[e-mail]>,
Jeff Manning <[e-mail]>, Elizabeth Kountis <[e-mail]>
The reporter's request was not part of this - he was looking at a reclass request and
the mention of PFOA was incidental.
Connie Brower wrote:
Sandra -- please thank Bob for sending this to us --
I am not (personally) aware of any recent notification to DWQ by the Riverkeepers
-- but -- we are a big organization and it may be true -- Susan Massengale got a
call yesterday from a reporter about possible EPA studies in the Cape Fear -- so
they could have already had wind of this latest push in Georgia ..(I noted that
these were dated in February 08-- it surprises me we didn't get the calls then! )
thanks again -
connie
Sandra Moore wrote:
Sandra Moore Industrial Hygiene Consultant
Division of Water Quality
NC Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Archdale Building, Room 711K
512 N SALISBURY ST, RALEIGH NC 27604-1170
919.733.7015 x571 [e-mail]
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[Fwd: Taylor -Guevara, Georgia & APFO]
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Bob Glaser <[e-mail]>
Date:
Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:22:09 -0400
To.
SANDRA MOORE <[e-mail]>
To.
SANDRA MOORE <[e-mail]>
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Cathy,
For your information.
Hope Taylor -Guevara left a phone message for me concerning, among other things,
APFO in a river in Georgia. In a related development, the state of Georgia
will intitate state-wide testing of water intakes for APFO. (See Below).
The NC RiverKeepers have communicated their concerns to DWQ.
Chatanooga Times Free Press
Study finds high levels of stain -resistance ingredient in Conasauga River
(2/10/08)
http://timesfreepress.com/news/2008/feb/10/epa-finds-high-levels-stain-
resistance-ingredient/
DALTON, Ga. - Five years after federal regulators began seeking changes in the
makeup of a chemical used to produce carpet stain repellent, researchers have
found "staggeringly high" amounts of the EPA advisory board -labeled "likely
carcinogen" in the Conasauga River.
Former University of Georgia professor Aaron Fisk, who oversaw a graduate
student study measuring amounts of the chemical in rivers in 2006 and 2007,
said levels of perfluorooctanoic acid and its compounds in the Conasauga were
among the highest ever measured in water at a nonspill location.
Each day, the sprinklers at the Looper's Bend Wastewater Treatment Plant spray
30 million to 40 million gallons of wastewater, 87 percent of which is
industrial waste, onto a 9,200-acre peninsula of forested land surrounded on
three sides by the Conasauga River, Dalton Utilities officials said.
Waste from the federally approved sewage treatment system is supposed to
decompose in the soil, but both Dr. Fisk and EPA officials now believe the
man-made perfluorooctanoic acid and its compounds slip virtually unchanged into
the river.
The chemical, often called PFOA or C8, is legal and has been used in carpet
mills and other manufacturing sites in the area for at least 15 years,
officials said.
Chatanooga Times Free Press
Sampling of drinking water.to track emerging chemical (2/11/08)
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2008/feb/11/sampling-drinking-water-
track-emerging-chemical/
DALTON, Ga. - Georgia plans to begin statewide sampling this year at drinking
water intakes for perfluorooctanoic acid, according to a program manager of the
Environmental Protection Division.
The acid is labeled a "likely carcinogen" by a federal panel and is found in
the Conasauga River.
"We're trying to be proactive," said Jane Hendricks, program manager for the
permitting compliance and enforcement program of the division's watershed
protection branch.
Ms. Hendricks said the acid, called PFOA or C8, lacks "a lot of standards out
there telling us how much is safe yet."
"If we collect data and know what's out there, (then) when the risk assessments
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are complete, we'll have data to compare to the standards, she said.
The substance is used by some companies in the Dalton carpet industry, which
produces 80 percent of the nation's carpets, to make stain -
repellent floor coverings, according to EPA and industry reports.
Larry Stanley
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