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Michael S. Regan, Secretary
Release: FdMEDIATE Contact: Jamie Kritzer
Date: Aug. 2, 2017 Phone: [phone]
Finished drinking water results for GenX below health goal
All results trending downward
RALEIGH — Concentrations of GenX in the Cape Fear River are trending downward and all the latest test results in
finished drinking water show that concentrations of the unregulated chemical compound are below the state's public health
goal.
The state's latest test results were released Wednesday and reflect conditions in the Cape Fear River July 17-24 when the
N.C. Department of Environmental Quality completed its fifth week of testing. The state DEQ and the N.C. Department of
Health and Human Services have been investigating the presence of GenX in the Cape Fear River since June 19. That
investigation, and pressure from residents and local officials prompted Chemours, the company manufacturing the
unregulated chemical, to stop discharging GenX into the Cape Fear.
"The good news is we have seen the levels of GenX below the state's health goal at the finished drinking water sites and
are continuing to decrease significantly since Chemours stopped ,a:s�g releasing this compound into the river," said
Michael Regan, secretary of the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality. "We will continue to investigate and will
share the results of our investigation with the public in a timely fashion."
The state results for drinking water remained below the 140 parts per trillion health goal developed by the N.C. Department
of Health and Human Services. The health goal represents the concentration of GenX at which no adverse non -cancer
health effects would be anticipated over an entire lifetime of exposure to the most sensitive populations. State officials
stress that some fluctuation in results is expected for measurements in the parts -per -trillion range.
Testing Water sampling and analysis will continue at all finished water sites for the foreseeable future. DEQ has created a
map on its GenX web page to better illustrate the state's sampling results. Results may be viewed at:
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