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Perez, Helen I
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Sent: Monday, June 19, 2017 S:02 PM
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Subject: Press Release: DEQ starting water quality sampling for GenX in Cape Fear River
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Roy Cooper; Governor
-lease: IMMEDIATE
ate: June 19, 2017
Contact: Jamie Kritzer
Phone: [phone]
DEQ starting water quality sampling for
Michael S. Regan, Secretary
River
ALEIGH — Staff with the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality will sample the water in the Cape Fear River for an unregulated
,emical compound known as GenX starting today and continuing Thursday.
EQ staff will sample at 13 locations this week and will continue collecting samples for analysis in the same locations for the next three week
)day, DEQ staff in the Fayetteville regional office are collecting water samples at the Chemours plant that produces GenX during industrial
ocesses, the Bladen Bluff intake and their finished water, and a water supply well in Bladen County.
a Thursday, DEQ staff in the Wilmington regional office plan to sample the Lower Cape Fear Water and Sewer Authority's intake, the
ternational Paper intake, the International Paper finished water, the Cape Fear Public Utility Authority's finished water, the Pender County
iblic utility's finished water, the Brunswick County public utility's finished water, the Cape Fear Public Utility's Aquifer Storage and
-covert' well, and the Wrightsville Beach water supply well.
fficials are waiting three days between sampling events since that is the estimated travel time for the Cape Fear to flow the 70 miles from the
iemours plant in Fayetteville to the downstream river intakes near Wilmington. Officials are trying to sample similar water parcels in the tw
-as for a more consistent and representative analysis.
EQ staff, in consultation with state Department of Health and Human Services, are investigating the presence of the unregulated compound
[own as GenX that was detected in the Cape Fear River.
ite environmental regulators will collect the water samples and will send those to two laboratories capable of detecting GenX in water at log
ncentrations.
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fter meeting with DEQ staff last week, Chemours agreed to bear all costs for the water collection and testing. The state believes the complet(
suits will be back from the laboratory in Colorado within four weeks from when the samples are received. But multiple rounds of testing an(
alysis will be necessary for a meaningful evaluation of the water quality. Samples also will be sent to the Environmental Protection Agency
:) in the Research Triangle Park. Officials have not yet determined a timeline for when analysis from the EPA lab would be completed.
learn more about sampling locations, please contact Jamie Kritzer, communications director for DEQ, at 919-707-8602.
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