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Subject: DEQ starting water quality sampling for GenX in Cape Fear River
Roy Cooper, Governor
Date: June l92Ol7
Contact: Jamie Kritzer
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Michael S. Regan, Secretary
&&&LEVG|0—Staff with the NI. Department ofEnvironmental Quality will sample the water inthe Cape Fear River for uo
unregulated chemical compound known as GenX starting today and continuing Thursday.
D20staff will sample el|3locations this week and will continue collecting samples for analysis iothe same locations for the
next three weeks. Today, D80staff iotheFayetteville regional office are collecting water samples a(d/cChcnunzmnkmtd/at
produces GcnX during industrial processes, the Bladen Bluff intake and their finished water, and a water supply well in Bladen
On Thursday, DG0staff in the Wilmington regional office plan tosample the Lower Cape Fear Water and Sewer o
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 ' three days between a cvon( a�� ood/iaUhcca�trav
el (�oofor the Cape Fear boOov'the ?O
b�n� miles from nbmt in (othe 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 uIthe
unregulated compound known osGcnXthat was detected inthe Cape Fear River.
State environmental regulators will collect the water samples and will send those to two laboratories capable of detecting (}onX
in water at low concentTations.
After meeting with DB0staff last week, Chemmur agreed tobear all costs for the water collection and testing. The state
believes the completed results will boback from the laboratory inColorado within four weeks from when the samples are
orcobod. But multiple rounds o[testing and analysis will hnnecessary for umeaningful evaluation ofthe water qualdr.
Samples also will be sent to the Environmental Protection Agency's lab *in the Research Triangle Park. Officials havenot yet
determined a timeline for when analysis from the EPA lab would be completed.
Tolearn more about sampling locations, please contact Jamie Kritzer,communications director for DEQ,ui9l9-?O?-0602.
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