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Those schools, Alderman Road Elementary School and Gray’s Creek Elementary School, are both about four miles away from a plant owned by Chemours, the company under investigation for the discharge of GenX.
“Cumberland County will start providing bottled water to our school until we receive test results from the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality,” the phone message stated.
“We need good water,” she said.
The schools also use wells, and a DEQ spokeswoman told CBS North Carolina public concern from citizens prompted the tests.
Research into GenX is in the early stages, and its effects on the human body are unclear.
Beyond the schools, the state is testing the water of two nearby lakes, Marshwood Lake and Point East Lake. It also testing the water supply going to a community baseball park north of Marshwood Lake.
For parents like Miller, they want to know the water their children drink is safe.
That school gets city water and is not on the list.