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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
Release: IMMEDIATE
Date: June l42Ol7
Michael S. Regan, Secretary
Environmental
Contact: Jamie Kritzer
Phone:9|9-7O7-8602
DEQ starting water quality sampling for GcnX in Cape Fear River
RkLEIG|0—Staff with the Y4I.Department ofEnvironmental Qualitv will sample the water iuthe Cape Fear River for oo
unregulated chemical compound known as GenX starting today and continuing Thursday.
DBQstaff will sample ui|3locations this week and will continue collecting samples for analysis iothe same locations for the
next three weeks. Today, D20staff iotheFayetteville regional office are collecting water samples e1the Chenunurmplant that
produces (}onXduring industrial processes, the B|odcnBluff intake and their finished water, and awater supply well inB|adcn
On Thursday, D20staff in to Wilmington regional office plan Wsample the Lower Cape Fear Water and Sewer Authoritys
intake, the International Paper intake, the International Paper finished water, the Cape Fear Public Utility Authority's finished
water, the Pender County public utility's finished water, the Brunswick County public utility's finished water, the Cape Fear
Public Utility's Aquifer Storage and Recovery well, and the Wrightsville Beach water supply well.
Officials are waiting' three days between s ovont since that is the es6nxVed�m/�(��ofor the Cape Fear toOovvthe 7O
bfr
om plant in iothe downstream river intakes near Officials aretrying to sample
similar water parcels in the two areas for a more consistent and representative analysis.
DEQ staff, in consultation with state Department of Health and Human Services, are investigating the presence o{the
unregulated compound known aeGcn%that was detected inthe Cape Fear River.
State environmental regulators will collect the water samples and will send those to two laboratories capable of detecting [eu}C
in water at low concentrations.
/U}or meeting with DEQ staff last week, Chemours agreed to bear all costs for the water collection and testing. The state
believes the completed results will boback from the laboratory ioColorado within four weeks from when the samples are
received. But multiple rounds o[testing and analysis will bonecessary for omeaningful evaluation n[the water quality.
Samples also will be sent to the Environmental Protection Agency's lab *in the Research Triangle Park. Officials have not yet
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determined a timeline for when analysis from the EPA lab would be completed.
To learn more about sampling locations, please contact Jamie Kritzer, communications director for DEQ, at 919-707-8602.
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