SOUTHEASTERN, NC (WWAY) — The state has directed Chemours to provide bottled water to eight more well owners near the company’s Fayetteville Works facility after new preliminary test results show GenX above the state health goal in residential drinking wells.
The number of residential well owners receiving bottled water from Chemours now stands at 19, because of GenX detections above the provisional state health goal of 140 parts per trillion.
DEQ is also testing residential wells; in addition to testing for GenX, the state agency is also testing for two other fluorinated compounds, PFOA and PFOS. The state agency is testing for the three fluorinated compounds because they all have established health goals.
It is the second information session state officials have hosted to answer peoples’ questions about private well testing near the facility.
On Tuesday, DEQ received preliminary results for the first seven wells the state agency tested. The state had test results that showed GenX above the health goal in two wells, including one well that had already been tested and identified through results from Chemours that DEQ reported earlier this month. Four residential wells had detections of GenX below the health goal, and one did not detect GenX.
Chemours’ latest preliminary test results show GenX was detected at levels below the provisional state health goal in two wells; it was not detected in three residential wells.