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On Jun 19, 2017, at 3:03 PM, Kritzer, Jamie <igir
Release: IMMEDIATE Contact: Jamie Kritzer
Date: June l9,JO17 Phone: 919'7O7'
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State starting water quality sampling for GenX in Cape Fear River <image002.png>
RALEIGH — Staff with the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality will sample the water in the Cape
Fear River for an unregulated chemical compound known as GenX starting today and continuing
Thursday.

Staff will sample at 12 locations this week and will continue collecting samples for analysis for the next
three weeks. Today, DEQ staff in the Fayetteville regional office are collecting water samples at the
[hemouru plant that produces GenXdurin8 industrial processes, the 8|aden Bluff intake and their
finished water, and awater supply well inB|adenCounty.
OnThursday, DBQstaff in Wilmington plan to sample Southeast Brunswick Sanitary District's intake, the
International Paper intake, the International Paper finished water, the Cape Fear Public Utility
Authority's finished water, the Fender 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.
DEQ staff, in consultation with state Department of Health and Human Services, are investigating the
presence of the unregulated compound that was discovered in the Cape Fear River.
State environmental regulators will collect the water samples and will send those to laboratories
capable of detecting GenX in water at low concentrations.
After meeting with D8lstaff last week, [hemoursagreed tobear all costs for the water collection and
testing. One laboratory, which is in Colorado, has indicated that its first test results will likely be
available 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 will also 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,
at9B-707-8UJ.
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Jamie Kritzer
Communications Director
N.C.Department ofEnvironmental Quality
919-707-8602
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