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From: Kritzer, Jamie [/D=[XCHANG[LAB5/OU=EXCHANGEADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
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Sent: 9/22/I0I71I:20:15PM
To: Albert Rubin [[e-mail]]
Subject: Re: State directs Chemours to provide residents with bottled water after GenX found in preliminary well
You're welcome, l]r. Rubin.
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Jamie Kritzer
Communications Director
N.C.Department UFEnvironmental Quality
1601 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-1601
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From: Albert [e-mail]>
Sent: Thursday, September 2l,2D177:19PK4
To: Kritzer, Jamie
Subject: Re: State directs Chemours to provide residents with bottled water after GenX found in preliminary well
thank you.
On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 1: 3 8 PM, Jamie Kritzer <i amie.kritzer(2(ncd.enr. gov> wrote:
Roy Cooper, Governor
[)ate: Sept. 21,2017
Environmental
Quality
Contact: Lmuro1 Jamie Kritzer
Phone:
Michael S. Regan, Secretary
State directs Chcmours to provide residents with bottled water after GenX found in preliminary well tests
RALEIGH—Stateofficalahmmdiredo [honoumWprovide bottled water to||homeowners near the company's
Fayetteville Works facility after the o preliminary test results showed Gcn}Cabove state health goals inresidential
drinking wells.
The state Department o[Environmental Quality and [honionr started testing residential wells near the facility after GonXwas
detected in|3industrial, non -drinking water wells onthe facility's property. Chomonraietesting the private wells for Gcn}{.
D20istesting private wells near the facility also, but inaddition tok:s6nQfor (�en}�,the ot�oagency isalso toodn8for two
testing for the three fluorinated compounds because they all

have established health goals. The state expects its test results in the coming weeks.
To date, Chemours has received preliminary test results for 32 residential wells for people living near the facility. GenX was not
detected in 13 residential wells. GenX concentrations were found below the state's provisional health goal of 140 parts per
trillion for eight other residential wells. The 11 homeowners with GenX levels above the state's provisional public health goal
were supplied with bottled water and health information about GenX. Most of the I I wells with elevated GenX levels are north
of the facility.
The company's test results have not been validated. Out of an abundance of caution, the state directed the company to supply
bottled water to residents after receiving word Friday of the first batch of preliminary test results, and then again on Tuesday
when Chemours notified the state of another batch of 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 Environmental Quality. "Making sure people have clean
drinking water is our top priority."
This week, DEQ has continued collecting water samples for residential wells nearest the facility. As of Wednesday, DEQ had
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 of testing to determine if people need alternative sources of
water and if GcnX 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 GcnX, PFOA and PFOS has been posted to DEQ's website at: littps://deg.ne.gov/news/bot-
tQp-i-c-s/g-e-nx-iiivesti�4atioii/health-related-i-esources-ibout-ggn.x�p i-aiid- 1 with 1 effects
---- ------ fo, __pfas. Residents wi questions about the health If ts
related to GenX, PFOA or PFOS can contact the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services at.9-1-9--7-07-5900.
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