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Subject: Fwd: Press Release: DEQ starting water quality sampling for GenX in Cape Fear River
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Subject: Press Release: DEQ starting water quality sampling for GenX in Cape Fear River
Roy Cooper, Governor
Environmental
Quality
Release: EVIMEDIATE Contact: Jamie Kritzer
Date: June l42Ol7 Phone:9|9-7O7-8602
Michael S. Regan, Secretary
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 kno-vvii 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 in theFayetteville regional office are collecting *uicr samples elthe Chcnxourplant that
produces GemXduring 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 e
intake, the International Paper intake, the International Paper finished water, the Cape Fear Public Utility "oDnishod
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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 sampling events since that is the estimated travel time for the Cape Fear to flow the 70
miles from the Chemours plant in Fayetteville to the downstream river intakes near Wilmington. Officials are trying 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 or the
unregulated compound known as GcnX that was detected in the Cape Fear River.
State environmental regulators will collect the water samples and will send those to two laboratories capable of detecting GcnX
in water at low concentrations.
After 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 be back from the laboratory in Colorado within four weeks from when the samples are
received. But multiple rounds of testing and analysis will be necessary for a meaningful evaluation of the water quality.
Samples also will be sent to the Environmental Protection Agency's lab in the Research Triangle Park. Officials have not yet
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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