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Subject: DEDNews Clips: July I3,ZOI7
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Regulators announce new 'science panel' review of drinking water standard after VVBTV investigation
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Coal ash neighbors: Don't raise rates as pollution lingers
Growing number of humpback whales found dead off the East Coast
State toform science board toreview chromium standards
NCDMF reports fishing trips up while catches are down
Coastal Communities toGet Storm Grants
(GenX) Catlin Engineering to conduct work for $50,000 or less
From Wilmington Star: (for those who cannot open the link above)
NEW HiAN()V2JIC()UN]-Y—Cape Feat, Public Utility Authority has contracted with l\il o-haVedCatin
Engineering to pump almost 50 million gallons of water contaminated by GenX out of an aquiferwhere itwas

Since early June, residents and officials have expressed great concern that GenX, about which very little is
known, was found in their drinking water. A StarNews special report last month revealed that C;hemours -- and
before that DuPont -- has been releasing GenX into the Cape Fear River on -and- off since igSO as a discharge
fr-om a vinyl ether process being conducted at its t-0ay€ tteAll€ Works plant.
C;iiPUA's aquifer storage and recovery, (ASR) is designed to take treated water from the Sweeney NVater
Treatment Plant and let it drain into the Upper Peedee Aquifer, where it is stored to be pumped out later for
drinking water.
Executive Director Jim Flechtner said Wednesday during C FPUA's Board of Directors meeting that Catlin
Engineers and Scientists will remove 49 million gallons of water injected into the Upper Peedee Aquifer and
test it for GenX.
The contract is not to exceed 50,000, officials said.
"The authority carve tip with this idea," said Tick Catlin, an environmental engineer and former state
representative. "They want to make sure There are no concerns."
CEPUA officials said the project is in its planning phase, but primping could start in less than a month. The
eater taken from the ASR i4rill likely be primped into the waste water system where it will pass through the
Northside Wastewater' Treatment Plant across from the airport and discharged into the river.
Frank Styers, CFPF A's chief operations officer, said in June CFPF A does not believe that water from the
system has migrated beyond a 300-foot- radius "sphere of influence" around the well that feeds it. 'The
nanofiltration plant in Ogden draws its water- from the Peedee Aquifer, but nowhere near the zone of influence
of the ASK. project, CFIPF A officials said.
Sayers also said the system, which is located near Westbrook Avenue just off :Military Cutoff Road, is not yet
fully operational.
"We will not Arthdraw eater for drinking until we understand the issues associated A th GenX," Styers said.
Flechtner also talked about the recent Genf. test results.
Tuesday afternoon, C'iiPUA said samples taken June 26 and tested by Eurofrns Scientific showed 149 parts per
trillion of GenX in raw water and 156 in finished water at the utility's Sweeney Treatment Plante Then, on July
3, numbers in finished water had further declined to 55.4 parts per trillion. Samples taken pJuly S showed 93.
and 87.4 parts per trillion in the raw and finished water, respectively.
"While the levels have come down; there is still GenX in the water," Flechtner said.
He added that C°F<PUA was also taking water samples from the nanofiltration plant in Ogden, but don't expect
to find any GenX in the ground water.
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Flechtner told the board Wednesday CF-PU.A is looking at legal remedies to determine if the authority is owed
damages. He said CFI PI hired Brooks Pierce, one of the top environmental law firms in the state.
"Our primary concern is to make sure if people are putting something in the rivet, they are complying with their
pert -nits,," Fleclitner said in an interview last with the Stat"News. "Those permits accurately and fully protect the
so
urce water such as ours. We will study all of our options in terms of legally getting remedies."
Cathy Akroyd
Public Information Officer
Public Affairs / Water Infrastructure
N. C. Department of Environmental Quality
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