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Subject: State directs Chemours to provide residents with bottled water after GenX found in preliminary well
Roy Cooper, Governor
Release: FWMEDIATE
Date: Sept.21, 2017
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Quality
Contact: Laura I Jamie Kritzer
Phone: [phone];919'707-8602
Michael S. Regan, Secretary
State directs Chcmours to provide residents with bottled water after GenX found in preliminary well tests
RALEIGH—State officials have directed 0emoumtoprovide bottled water W||homeowners near the company's
Fayetteville Works facility after the company's preliminary test results showed GonXubmve state health goals inresidential
dninking wells.
The state Department o{Environmental Quality and Chonuu/mstartedtesting residential wells near the facility after (}onXwas
detected in|3induotTiul,non water wells onthe facility's property. Chomour istesting the private wells for GcnX.
D20ixtesting private wells near the facility also, but iuaddition iohc for {}ou}{,the mkVeagency ixalso h: for two
other fluorinated �� u,9POmodPPO3.ThcebHou&onoyiu{o for the three fluorinated compounds because they all
have established health goals. The state expects its test results in the coming weeks.
To date, [honxn/mhas received preliminary test results for 32residential wells for people living near the facility. GonXwas not
detected in 13 residential wells. GenX concentrations were found below the state's provisionalhealth goal of|4Oparts per
hriOion for eight other residential wells. The |lhomeowners with GenX levels above the obxo`oprovisional public health goal
were supplied with bottled water and health information about (}ouX. Most o[the |lwells with elevated OonXlevels are north
of the facility.
Thecompany's test results have not been validated. Out of an abundance of caution, the state directed the company to supply
bottled water ioresidents after receiving word Friday of the first batch of preliminary test results, and then again on Tuesday
vvhen Chemours notified the state ofanother batch o[preliminary results.
"We want to make sure people with elevated concentrations of GenX in their wells have an immediate alternative water
source," said Michael Regan, secretary of the N.C. Department of EnvironmentalQuality. "Making sure people have clean
dninking water is our top pnionity."
This week, D80has continued collecting water samples for residential wells nearest the facility. As of Wednesday, D20hud
collected water samples for 31 residential wells in Bladen and Cumberland counties. The state will send samples to Gel
Laboratories in Charleston, S.C. for analysis and use the results o[testing to determine Jpeople need alternative sources of
water and if GenX or the two other fluorinated compounds produced at the facility have moved into the surrounding
community. If tests reveal levels of any of the fluorinated compounds above established health goals, the state will direct
Chemours to provide affected homes with alternative water and health information on the compounds.

It's important to understand that the state's provisional health goal for GenX represents the concentration of GenX at -which no
adverse, non -cancer health effects would be anticipated in the most sensitive populations over an entire lifetime of exposure.
Health -related information on Gen_X, PFOA and PFOS has been posted to DEQ's website at: litVs.Hdeq.nc v/news/hot-
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topies/gcnx-investigation/health-related-resources-about-gcnx-p a-and-pfas. Residents with questions about the health effects
related to GcnX, PFOA or PFOS can contact the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services at 919-707-5900.
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