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From: Vince Winkel [vwinkel0kwhqcorg]
Sent: 6/I9/20178:57:47PN1
To: Kritzer, Jamie [/o=ExchangeLabs/ou=ExchangeAdministrative Group
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Subject: Re: DEDstarting water quality sampling for 6enXinCape Fear River
Thanks Jamie. Can I get a list of locations and dates, not for publication, but for me to go and take pix and get
Roy Cooper, Governor
Environmental
Quality
Release: IMNIEDIATE Contact: Jamie Kritzer
Date: June l92Ol7 Phone: [phone]
Michael S. Regan, Secretary
RAL0IG|0—Staff with the 24.C. Department ofEnvironmental Quality will sample the water iothe Cape Fear River for uu
unregulated chemical compound known as GenX starting today and continuing Thursday.
D20staff will sample e1|]locations this week and will continue collecting samples for analysis iuthe same locations for the
next three weeks. Today, D80staff iotheFayetteville regional office are collecting water samples a(d/cChcnunzmnkmtd/at
produces GenX 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 s
intake, the International Paper intake, the International Paper finished water, the Cape Fear Public Utility `o6niohod
water, the9ender 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 x evnni x��esti
mated travel time v� for the
milesfromn�afromthe Chcnxonr pl
ant in to the downstream river intakes near Wilmington. Officials aretrying to aunolc
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 osGenXthat 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

After incefing 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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