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From: Culpepper, Linda [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANG[ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
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CC: Miller, Anderson [/o=ExchanXeLabs/ou=[xchangeAdministrative Group
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Subject: FVV:Cape Fear River SenX
John —below isanupdate from last night. VVehad agood con[call this morning with the local health directors.
They really stressed the need for communication. We're going to continue having daily morning conference calls
with them to help keep info. moving.
Let me know if you would like to talk. I'm finished with meetings around 5prn today.
Release: IMMEDIATE Contact: Jamie Kritzer
Date: June 19,2U17 Phone:919'7O7'O6D2
&&&LEVG|0—Staff with the NI.Department o[Environmental Quality will sample the water inthe Cape Fear River for eo
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, DG0staff intheFayetteville regional office arc collecting water samples o(the Chemmurplant that
produces GcnX during industrial processes, the Bladen Bluff intake and their finished water, and a water supply well in Bladen
On Thursday, D20staff intheregional office plan tosample the Lower Cape Fear Water and Sewer m
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 Acinifer 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
b6n� miles from plant in tothe dnwnobTeumriver intakes near Wilmington.O[Koial aretTying 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 investigatingthe presence o[the
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 {3on}{
in water at low concentrations.
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 iuColorado 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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Linda Culpepper
Deputy Director
DMsion of Water Resources
North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality
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Subject: Fwd: Cape Fear River - GenX
R. Anderson Miller
Legislative Affairs Program Director
North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality
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Raleigh, NC 27699
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From: John Ganem (Rep. Chris Millis) <[e-mail]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2017 10:01:05 AM
To: Miller, Anderson
Subject: Cape Fear River - GenX
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Can you provide any update on this situation after last week?
NC Home of Representafives
300 N. Safisbury Street, Room 633
RaIeWi� NC 27603-5925
919-715-9664
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