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Subject: RE: State directs Chemours to provide residents with bottled water after GenX found in preliminary well
Jamie Kritzer
Communications Director
N.C. Department of Environmental Quality
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Subject: RE: State directs Chemours to provide residents with bottled water after GenX found in preliminary well
Hi Jamie,
Questions:
b[hemoursagreeing toprovide this water tothe lIhouseholds?
These 11were out ofeninitial round oftests on32households?
If these 11 sites are mostly north of the plant, does that mean they are in Cumberland County?
Ten sites inCumberland County. One inB|adenCounty.
This is a precautionary measure because they represent the findings of one set of tests alone?
This is precautionary measure because the data from [hemours has not been validated. It is preliminary.
DEQ is now in the process of testing wells frorn 31 ADDITIONAL sites?

No. DEQ is sampling private wells in properties adjoining the plant. But there are some wells that Chemours tested that
we are testing as well.
What about that letter from Chemours I asked about Monday?
Chemours late last week (Sept. 8) blasted the state's response to its chemical discharges into the Cape Fear River,
accusing the Department of Environmental Quality of misleading the public about what it knew and when, as well as
reacting with "inexplicable secrecy" as the company tried to work with regulators. In a letter to DEQ's in-house attorney,
the company described itself as a good corporate citizen "stymied by DEQ at every turn" and exasperated by unrealistic
demands. It pointed to at least two efforts going back to 2002 to turn DEQ's attention to chemical discharges similar to
the ones now causing pollution concerns in the river, saying they essentially were met with silence. There's "no basis,"
the company's attorneys argued in the letter, for the state's accusation last week that Chemours misled regulators.
.(Travis Fain, WRAL NEWS, 9/15/17).
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Emery
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To: Dalesio, Emery
Subject: State directs Chemours to provide residents with bottled water after GenX found in preliminary wl
Roy Cooper, Governor
Release: IMNIEDIATE
Date: Sept. 21, 2017
Environmental
Quality
Contact: Laura J. Leonard; Jamie Kritzer
Phone: [phone]
Michael S. Regan, Secretary
DEQ-CFW 00084969

0tutcdirumts Chcmours to providc rcsidcnts with bottbdvvuturu0crGcnXfound inprdbmbmuryn/d|tunts
RALEIGH—State officials have directed 0emoumWprovide bottled water to||homeowners near the company's
Fayetteville Works facility after the company's preliminary test results showed GonXabove state health goals in residential
drinkim4 wells.
The state Department o[Environmental Quality and Chemours startedtesting residential wells near the facility after Gon)<was
detected inl3industrial, non-driinkwater wells onthe DmJJr"oproperty. Chomour iotesting the privatexoOoDorGcmX.
DB(}imtesting private wells near the facility also, but ioaddition iohr D�(�en}{,the x&�oagency imalso hu for two
other fluorinated PFO/\muiPF03.The a�toagency ia(o for the three fluorinated compounds because they all
have established health goals. The state expects its test results in the coming weeks.
To date, Chonuu/mhas received preliminary test results for 32residential wells for people living near the facility. Gon}{was not
detected in 13 residential wells. GcnX concentrations were found below the state's provisionalhealth goal o[|4Oparts per
trillion for eight other residential wells. The || homeowners with GonX levels above the okato`s provisional publicheuNb goal
were supplied with bottled water and health information about GenX. Most of the I I wells with elevated GenX levels are north
of the facility,
Thecompany's test results have not been validated. Out of an abundance of caution, the state directed the company to supply
bottled water ioresidents after receiving word Friday of the first batch of preliminary test results, and then again on Tuesday
when Chemours notified the state o[another batch o{preliminary results.
"We want to make sure people with elevated concentrations of GenX in their wells have an immediate alternative water
source," said Michael Regan, secretary of the N.C. Department of EnvironmentalQuality. "Making sure people have clean
drinking water is our top pnionity."
This week, DB0has continued collecting water samples for residential wells nearest the facility. Aso[Wednesday, D80had
collected water samples for 31 residential wells in Bladen and Cumberland counties. The state will send samples to Gel
Laboratories in Charleston, S.C. for analysis and use the results o[testing to determine Jpeople need okornatb'o sources of
water and if GenX or the two other fluorinated compounds produced at the facility have moved into the surrounding
community. If tests reveal levels of any of the fluorinated compounds above established health goals, the state will direct
Chemours (oprovide affected homes with alternative r/uiorundhoalthin[onnodnnondh000nqpounds.
k`aimportant iounderstand that d/cakUo`eprovisional health goal for GcnXrepresents the concentration o[(}onXa1which no
adverse, non -cancer health effects would boanticipated inthommotsonoitivr Populations over omentire liOetimeo[exposure.
Health -related information onGc�g�has been poukdioD20`anobadoat:
i Residents with questions about the health effects
related to GenX, PFOA or PFOS can contact the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services at 919-707-5900.
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