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Release: IMMEDIATE Contact: Laura J. Leonard
Date: Sept. 13'2Ol7 Phone:919'7O7'8233
Well testing part of ongoing investigation into chemical compound GenX
RALE|GH—Theutatedepartnent ofEnvironmental Quality and Health and Human Services will host acommunhy
information session on Thursday for people interested in the state's plans to test private wells near Chemours'
Fayetteville Works facility in 8|aden County.
State officials plan to start collecting water samples for testing hnm residential wells adjacent to the facility on Friday as
part of an ongoing investigation into the chemical GenX, which is produced by Chemours.
The information session will be held from 6-7:30 p.m. Thursday at St. Pauls Middle School, 526 WestShaw St.,St. Pau|s,
in Robeson County. Thursday's information session will give the community an opportunity to ask state officials
questions about the state's plans for testing. Eligible residents will also be able to sign up to have their wells tested.
Last week, state officials issued Chemours a notice of violation after detected GenX in
violation ufstate groundwater standards in 13 of14 industrial wells atthe company's Fayetteville Works facility. The
wells tested are used for environmental monitoring atthe facility and are not a source ofdrinking water. Based on the
test results, DE(land DHHS notified local officials and initiated plans to start testing the private wells of residents
nearest the facility.
"People in this community deserve to know about the safety of their well water and we're working to get them
answers," said Michael Regan, secretary of the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality. "Thursday's meeting will give
people who use these wells an opportunity to learn more about the well sampling process and next steps."
State officials must have resident's permission to conduct private well sampling. The water samples will betaken to
Gel Laboratories in Charleston, S.C., for analysis of GenX, PFOA and PFOS, which were detected in the preliminary test
results from the industrial wells atChemours'facility.
D8Qbegan investigating the presence of6enXinthe Cape Fear River inJune. AtDECysrequest, last Friday ajudge
signed an order requiring Chemours to not discharge GenX and two other chemicals, Nafion byproducts 1 and 2, into the
state's waterways.

More information about the state s investigation can be found at:
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For more details about Thursday's information session, contact Jamie Kritzer, DEQ!s communications director, at 919-
707-8602 or or Launs]. Leonard, public information officer for the state Division of Waste
Management, at919-7U7-8J3]or
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