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From: Albert Rubin [rubin4?ncsu.edu]
Sent: 9/22/2017122256PyW
To: Kritzer, Jamie [/o=ExchangeLabs/ou=ExchangeAdministrative Group
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Subject: Re: State directs Chemours to provide residents with bottled water after GenX found in preliminary well
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On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 8:20 AM Kritzer, Jamie wrote:
You're welcome, Dr. Rubin.
lcid hear yesterday from Linda Culpeppernnpossibly adding all thcENIC members tothe news release list.
I'm not sure how many of you are on the list but thought I'd track that down and see if we can add folks. Just
Jam] e Kritzer
Communications Director
N.C. Department of Environmental Quality
From: Albert Rubin
Sent: Thursday, September J1,JO177:19PK4
To: Kritzer, Jamie
thank you.
On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 1: 3 8 PM, Jamie Kritzer <j amie.kritzer L-�,ncdenr. gov> wrote:

Roy Cooper, Governor
Date: Sept.21,2017
EnvironmentalEnviEnvEnvironmental��
Contact: Laurol Jamie Kritzer
Phone:
Michael S. Regan, Secretary
0tutcdirumts Chcmours to providc rcsidcnts with bottbdvvuturu0crGcnXfound inprdbmbmuryn/d|tunts
RALEIGH—State officials have directed 0emoumWprovide bottled water to||homeowners near the company's
Fayetteville Works facility after the company's preliminary test results showed GonXabove state health goals in residential
drink]M4 wells.
The state Department o[Environmental Quality and Chemours startedtesting residential wells near the facility after Gon)<was
detected inl3industrial, non-driinkwater wells onthe DmJJr"oproperty. Chomour iotesting the privatexoOoDorGcmX.
DB(}imtesting private wells near the facility also, but ioaddition iohr D�(�en}{,the x&�oagency imalso hu for two
other fluorinated PFO/\muiPF03.The a�toagency ia(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, Chonuu/mhas received preliminary test results for 32residential wells for people living near the facility. Gon}{was not
detected in 13 residential wells. GcnX concentrations were found below the state's provisionalhealth goal o[|4Oparts per
trillion for eight other residential wells. The || homeowners with GonX levels above the okato`sprovisional public health goal
were supplied with bottled water and health information about [en}C. Most o{the || wells with elevated GnnXlevels 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
when Chemours notified the state o[another 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
drinking water is our top pnionity."
This week, DB0has continued collecting water samples for residential wells nearest the facility. Aso[ Wednesday. DG0hud
collected v/otor 00000leu for 31 residential wells in 8|udon and CunJbo1oud counties. The skUo will send oomp|oo to Gel
Laboratories in Charleston, S.C. for analysis and use the results o[testing to determine Jpeople need okornatb'o 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 (oprovide affected homes with alternative r/uiorundhoalthin[onnodnnondh000nqpounds.
k`aimportant iounderstand that d/cakUo`eprovisional health goal for GcnXrepresents the concentration o[(}onXa1which no
adverse, non -cancer health effects would boanticipated inthommotsonoitivr Populations over omentire liOetimeo[exposure.
Health -related information onGc�g�has been poukdioD20`anobadoat:
i Residents with questions about the health effects
related io[en}{,PFO/\or9POScan contact the N.C. Department o{Health and Human Services uig19-707-59xX>.

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Albert Robert (Bob) Rubin, Emeritus Professor
Biological and Agricultural Engineering
North Carolina State University
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