…Lawsuit Protections Pass In between, legislators fought for days over proposals aimed at reducing nuisance lawsuits over hog and poultry operations and fast-tracked a technical corrections bill that included significant changes to dredging funding and provisions in the budget in response to GenX and emerging contaminants. This week, the legislature…
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Policy Collaboratory Moves Into New Phase
…broader process of policy making is still a work in progress. “We really see the collaboratory almost as an in-house NGO, a grants-making organization,” Brad Ives, Director N.C. Policy Collaboratory Compiling GenX and emerging contaminants, studies on filtering systems, inexpensive home test kits for drinking water contaminants and the effectiveness…
Water Transfer Part of Pender’s Growth Plan
…county’s really betting its future on the Cape Fear River,” Holman said. “There’s heightened awareness about source water protection in southeastern North Carolina with GenX. Before GenX there were issues about toxic algae blooms in the Cape Fear. There’s always going to be things we’re going to need to be…
Researchers Probe Utility’s Water Filters
…a team that wrote a 2016 study identifying GenX and six other perfluorinated compounds in the lower Cape Fear River, recently said a pair of associated compounds had persisted in finished drinking water during late June and July even as their levels dropped in raw water. That could indicate compounds…
Discharge permit requires Chemours remove 99.9% of PFAS
…contamination, according to DEQ. During an initial period to adjust the performance of the system, the permit limits will be 120 parts per trillion, or ppt, for GenX, 100 ppt for perfluoro-2-methoxypropanoic acid, or PMPA, and 320 ppt for perfluoro-2-methoxyacetic acid, or PFMOAA. After the 180-day optimization period, the limits…
Forum Set on PFAS Research Progress
This illustration from PFAS Testing Network shows how PFAS can reach water sources. The North Carolina Policy Collaboratory and the North Carolina PFAS Testing Network are hosting at 6 p.m. May 4 a virtual forum to share ongoing research on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, and GenX. PFAS is…
State Seeks Input on Chemours’ Next Steps
Built by DuPont, the Fayetteville Works complex along the Cape Fear River covers 2,150 acres in Cumberland and Bladen counties. The state is taking public comments until Sept. 17 on the latest steps to prevent GenX and other per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, from entering the Cape Fear River…
Cooper Seeks $14.5 Million for DEQ, DHHS
RALEIGH — Gov. Roy Cooper is seeking $14.5 million in funding for state environmental and health regulatory agencies, money he says is needed to protect North Carolina residents from the health and safety threats of emerging contaminants including GenX. Gov. Roy Cooper Cooper’s office announced his budget recommendations Tuesday in…
Lawmakers Override Environmental Bill Veto
RALEIGH – The General Assembly overrode on Wednesday Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto last month of House Bill 56. The contentious environmental bill includes GenX-related funding for the University of North Carolina Wilmington and the Cape Fear Public Utility Authority, which supplies drinking water to much of the Wilmington area, and…
River Quality Panels Take Shape
RALEIGH – House and Senate leaders have announced respective new panels formed to investigate the discharge of the chemical GenX into the Cape Fear River. House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, announced Thursday appointments to the House Select Committee on North Carolina River Quality. “The House will reinforce its ongoing investigation…
Officials outline steps to address PFAS contamination
…PFAS during a three-month testing period in early 2020. But weekly samples CFPUA collects from the river still have Chemours-specific PFAS, Vandermeyden said. The presence of GenX has greatly declined, but some compounds, specifically PFMOAA, one of the shortest short-chain PFAS, has increased, he said. PFMOAA (perfluoro-2-methoxyacetic acid) is one…
Analysis: DEQ Braces for Budget Cuts
…over priorities between the state House and Senate and the executive branch for more than a decade as its dealt with a host of high-profile crises like coal ash, GenX in public drinking water supplies and hurricanes. A budget deal between the House and Senate last year would have given…