…million in additional funding for GenX-related testing, monitoring and public outreach. In her email Tuesday, Wade did not say when the next commission meeting would be held, but noted that the commission assisted in the development of the GenX provisions in House Bill 56, including $435,000 in funding for the…
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State Proposes Chemours Pay $12M Penalty
…at least 75 percent. Notify and coordinate with downstream public water utilities when an event at the facility has the potential to cause a discharge of GenX compounds into the Cape Fear River above the health goal of 140 parts per trillion. Learn More Proposed Consent Order NCDEQ GenX Investigation…
DEQ Takes Further Action Against Chemours
…this comprehensive legal action to protect communities from further impacts due to GenX contamination,” said DEQ Secretary Michael Regan in a statement. “We need to ensure that Chemours moves quickly to stop the release of these chemicals and address the impacts that have already occurred.” Learn More DEQ’s GenX Investigation…
State to force Chemours to test downstream wells for PFAS
…will be releasing a federal drinking water health advisory level for GenX in the coming months. The 2019 Consent Order requires Chemours to provide replacement permanent drinking water to private wells with “detections of GenX compounds in exceedance of 140 ng/L (nanogram per liter), or any applicable health advisory, whichever is lower.”…
PFAS Highest in Cape Fear’s Raw Water: Study
…The study measured untreated, raw water. According to the FDA, there are nearly 5,000 types of PFAS, referred to as forever chemicals because of their inability to naturally break down once they are released into the environment. They are man-made chemicals that include PFOA, PFOS and GenX and have been…
Research Suggests PFAS-Coronavirus Link
…to contain GenX — 33 at levels above the state’s health guideline. Researchers found that wells containing high levels of GenX also contained high levels of other PFAS. The researchers drew blood samples from residents, but those results aren’t yet available because the university’s labs had remained closed during the…
NC Not Getting Federal Grant to Study PFAS
…for and conducting PFAS-related research.” Chemours and GenX An estimated 250,000 people who get their drinking water from the Cape Fear River downstream of the Chemours chemical plant in Bladen County have been exposed to high levels of GenX and other PFAS contaminants. DuPont, and later Chemours, had been discharging…
‘Forever Chemicals’ Execs Under Fire
…Image: Screenshot of CSPAN broadcast, House Committee on Oversight and Reform GenX and thousands of other fluorinated compounds took the place of GenX and PFOA. Chemours was found in 2017 to have contaminated drinking water with GenX for an estimated 250,000 people in New Hanover, Brunswick and Pender counties who…
DEQ Moves to Revoke Chemours’ Permits
…its permit and failed to report an Oct. 6 spill from a manufacturing line at the Fayetteville Works facility. DEQ officials also notified Chemours that the state will suspend its permit to discharge process wastewater from its manufacturing area including the areas where GenX and other fluorinated compounds are produced….
Wrightsville Beach Says PFAS in Town Water
…GenX concentrations below the state Department of Health and Human Services’ health advisory for GenX in drinking water. Last year, the North Carolina General Assembly appropriated $450,000 to CFPUA for work related to addressing PFAS in the ASR. As part of that work, CFPUA said that in late January it…
Analysis: Securing Safety of Drinking Water
The Cape Fear Public Utility Authority’s Kings Bluff Pumping Station is near Lock and Dam No. 1 on the Cape Fear River in Bladen County. Photo: Army Corps of Engineers CHAPEL HILL — After this summer’s revelations about the extent of GenX and other compounds in the Wilmington region’s drinking…
EPA Has Made Some Changes to PFAS Plan
…results of which were shared in August with the North Carolina Secretaries’ Science Advisory Board, compared the toxicity of perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA and GenX in pregnant mice and their developing placenta and embryos. Both PFOA and GenX had adverse effects, including abnormal lesions in mature placenta. Emily Donovan “To…