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Subject: VVECT:NCDEO:Additional chemicals being dumped into water byChemours
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By: WECT Staff
Chemours, the company which was dumping GenX into the Cape Fear River, is discharging two additional chemical
compounds into the water as well, the NC Department of Environmental Quality announced.
DEQ officials said that the compounds were identified by a preliminary analysis by the U.S. Environmental Protection
At a meeting Monday, scientists with the EPA told state officials that they had identified the two compounds in
Chemours'waste stream and "that estimated concentrations of these compounds are not decreasing."
D8lofficials said that they wrote [hemoursonTuesday urging the company tostop releasing the newly identified
compounds, called Nafion byproducts I and 2. The DEQ also said it repeated its demand that the company provide the
DEQ with a complete inventory, sampling data and test results for all chemicals included in the company's waste stream.
"Our top priority is to protect the state's citizens," said Michael Regan, secretary of the N.C. Department of
Environmenta|Qua|hy."Unti|vveknoxvmoneaboutthehea|thefhectsofthesebyproducts the company needs to stop
discharging them. We're also repeating our demand that Chemours give us information about all other chemicals in its
waste stream."
The Nafion byproducts were found in water samples taken by the DEQ at Chemours' wastewater discharge outfall near
Fayetteville and finished drinking water at the Sweeney Water Treatment Plant in Wilmington.
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