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From: Vince Winkel [vwinkel0kwhqcorg]
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To: Kritzer, Jamie [/o=ExchangeLabs/ou=ExchangeAdministrative Group
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On Mon, Jun 26 2017 at 10:48 AM Kritzer,
Jamie wrote:
Sounds good. You want to just get the latest on sampling, ETAs for results, anything else?
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Communications Director
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From: Vince Winkel [mailto:vwinl<[e-mail]]
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2017 10:41 AM
To: Kritzer, Jamie <jamie.kritzerLa)ncdenr.gov>
Subject: Re: DEQ starting water quality sampling for GenX in Cape Fear River
Great, I'll dial you just after 11:45. Many thanks.
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On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 10:38 AA/1, Kritzer, Jamie <j-amie.kritzer@ gqy> wrote:
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Subject: Re: DEQ starting water quality sampling for GenX in Cape Fear River
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On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 4:56 PM, Jamie Kritzer <j-a-m-i-e-.-kri-t-z-e-r-(a -n-c-d-enr.-f4-ov.> wrote:
Governor
Release: EVNIEDIATE
Date: June 19, 2017
Secretary
Environmental
Quality
Contact: Jamie Kritzer
Phone: [phone]
DEQ starting water quality sampling for GcnX in Cape Fear River
Michael S. Regan,
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 GcnX starting today and continuing Thursday.
DEQ staff will sample at 13 locations this week and will continue collecting samples for analysis in the same locations for the
next three weeks. Today, DEQ staff in the Fayetteville regional office are collecting water samples at the Chemours plant that
produces GenX during industrial processes, the Bladen Bluff intake and their finished water, and a water supply well in Bladen
County.
On Thursday, DEQ staff in the Wilmington regional office plan to sample the Lower Cape Fear Water and Sewer Authority's
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 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
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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 of the
unregulated compound known as GenX 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 GenX
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 I 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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