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Yes, ContinueNo Raleigh, N.C. — As state regulators ordered chemical maker Chemours on Wednesday to supply bottled water to 30 more households near its Bladen County plant, the General Assembly’s major environmental oversight commission didn’t even address the water contamination problem associated with the plant.
Out of about 350 private wells near the Chemours plant tested so far, two-thirds have had GenX in them, and half of those had levels of the chemical above the state’s goal of 140 parts per trillion.
Overall, 115 households have been found to have contaminated wells.
Some House lawmakers want to take up legislation on GenX during a special session scheduled for Jan. 10, but the issue wasn’t even mentioned Wednesday at the Environmental Review Commission, the top oversight body on the matter.
After that, the House and the Senate set up separate committees to look at the issue.
Rep. Chuck McGrady , R-Henderson, the chairman of the ERC, said House and Senate leaders made the decision to take GenX away from his commission, but having other panels handling it does free up the ERC to deal with the other environmental issues.
Harrison says any legislation should include more money for DEQ to address GenX.

State officials have ordered Chemours to provide bottled water to an additional 30 well owners near the company’s Fayetteville Works facility after elevated levels of GenX were detected.
In all, there are 115 private well owners living near the facility who are receiving bottled water from Chemours due to the presence of high concentrations of GenX above the state’s health goal of 140 parts per trillion.
“Private well sampling will continue until we find where the contamination ends,” said Michael Scott, director of the Division of Waste Management in the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality.
“We will ensure that Chemours is providing bottled water to those homeowners’ with elevated concentrations of GenX, and work with Bladen and Cumberland counties to develop long-term solutions for clean water.” At DEQ’s direction, Chemours has expanded its sampling to 450 parcels one mile from the facility’s property boundary.
In this latest set of results for samples collected Oct. 12 through Nov. 15, 101 wells were tested.
Thirty showed detections of GenX above the state’s health goal, 41 showed detections of GenX below the health goal and 30 wells showed no detection.
So far, samples from 349 wells have been collected and verified from both the initial sampling by DEQ and Chemours and the recently expanded sampling.
Of those, 144 had detections of GenX below the provisional health goal while 90 showed no detections of GenX.
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Residents are being told to boil their water.
Around 3 p.m. Tuesday, the 20-inch water main burrowed about 12 feet down and blew a two-line wide hole in 44th Street at Burlingame Avenue.
For more than 24 hours, the Wyoming Department of Public Works has been doing its best to get that line fixed.
“It is a huge deal in a way because if you’re used to getting water from the faucet and you can’t — that’s a huge deal,” said Valarie Stewart, a resident at Deer View Apartments just northwest of the break.
“I really think we really need to get the ball rolling on getting the water back on.” Arron Vis, assistant director for the Wyoming Department of Public Works agrees.
“We been working on it around the clock,” Vis said.
No, this is old age, something wrong with the pipe, it’s time to fail so we know this pipe was put in in the mid-1960s so it was just it’s time,” Vis said.
“That 20-inch water main has a crack in there that’s about 10 feet and when that happens, the force of it kind of self-excavates that hole,” Vis said.
Because of the crack, 44th Street will be closed at Burlingame Avenue at least through the weekend until crews can refill and repave the road.
The conditions make miserable work on one of the coldest days of the year.

North Carolina State officials have ordered Chemours to provide bottled water to more well owners near the company’s Fayetteville Works facility.
The move comes after another round of testing shows higher levels of GenX in the wells.
The Department of Environmental Quality says that the latest test results, from samples taken between October 12 and November 15, showed 30 wells with GenX levels above the state’s health goal.
That means Chemours will now provide bottled water to those 30 well owners.
Meanwhile, DEQ has ordered Chemours to expand its sampling area to include all 450 properties that are within one mile of the facilities property line.
So far, the samples from 349 wells that have been collected and analyzed show 144 with detections of GenX below the provisional health goal, and 90 showing no detections of GenX.
The remaining 115 wells have levels above 140 parts per trillion, and that means they are all receiving bottled water from Chemours.

Oxfam and two local partners are distributing long-lasting water filters in communities where Hurricane Maria damaged water supplies.
In the weeks after the storm, the Environmental Protection Agency was advising people to boil their water before drinking it.
The Big Burkeys can hold 2.25 gallons of water at a time and can clean 6,000 gallons before the pair of filters inside needs to be changed.
That long filter life may be a relief to people like Camacho Colón, who recently received one of the Big Burkeys: She had always relied on spring water—until the storm hit and her husband fell sick and died after repairing pipes from the spring.
In the end, doctors declared Camacho Colón’s husband brain dead.
“I never thought I would go through something like this.” All her life, Camacho Colón has drunk the local spring water.
“I would tell my grandchildren’s parents: don’t let them touch anything.” Now, with Oxfam’s water filter, capable of removing contaminants eight times smaller than the one that causes Leptospirosis, she will no longer need to rely on bottled water.
‘The floor went down the mountainside’ For Ada H. Santiago, who lost almost her entire home in the storm, the filter distribution in her community took place just as she was running low on the bottled water provided by the municipality and the military.
So has Hernandez’s father, who preferred bottled water even before the storm.
“He’ll trust the water more.” Your support makes our response in Puerto Rico and in more than 90 countries around the world possible.

The break happened Wednesday night at 4710 Upper Mt Vernon Road which is close to the intersection at Red Bank Road.
Water and sewer crews said pressure was restored around 8:00 a.m. Thursday.
Treated water is now being sent through pipes again.
The boil advisory is still in effect, affecting one third of the city’s water system.
Early Thursday morning, pipes were brought in to replace the one that broke, which is a 50 year old cast iron water main, while the Evansville Water and Sewer Utility issued a precautionary boil advisory.
Still, the school has made preparations and schedules will be normal for students.
Some of our westside schools are on a boil advisory this morning.
Schools will operate on normal schedule.
— EVSC (@EVSC1) December 7, 2017 Crews are asking for no traffic between Tekoppel and N. Red Bank Road on Upper Mount Vernon Road.
(This story was originally published December 6, 2017)

FLINT (WJRT) (12/6/2017) – A key official in Gov.
Rick Snyder’s administration indicated Wednesday evening that Flint’s bottled water distribution could end in January.
Weaver’s office issued a press release late Wednesday after city and state officials met to discuss progress on Flint’s recovery from the water emergency.
She said during the meeting, Snyder’s adviser Rich Baird told the group free bottled water distribution will end in January if results from water tests taken in November and December are equal to or better than earlier test results.
Weaver’s office is still operating four points of distribution (PODS) sites, handing out up to five cases of bottled water per week to residents who believe they need it.
"While I am glad that water quality in Flint continues to improve, as it relates to lead, I still have concerns about the PODs closing and free bottled water no longer being provided to Flint residents," Weaver said.
"I need to hear from the medical and public health professionals on this issue first.
She encouraged state officials to talk with medical professionals advising the city on the water emergency response before cutting off the supply of free bottled water.
"We must put them first."
Weaver has said she plans to continue bottled water distribution as long as necessary to meet public health needs.

"Because of that, the first week many people got sick.
"We haven’t got bottled water in at least three or four days."
The Kurdish journalist and refugee Behrouz Boochani said there had been no running water in the East Lorengau Transit Centre since Wednesday morning.
Refugees at East Lorengau waited all day yesterday for water to be delivered by tanker, according to Mr Boochani.
He said the men there also queued for hours to receive food on Tuesday and Wednesday.
New Report highlights refugees’ poor health The shortages reported by refugees emphasis the findings of a new report by Melbourne’s Asylum Seeker Resource Centre.
The report said the long term accommodation of refugees was not tenable on Manus due to the lack of food, healthcare and services to support the men.
The report, which stemmed from a visit to the island last month by advocates from the centre, estimated about 150 of the men were suffering from serious illnesses.
"It was very clear that most of the medical problems are associated with people being detained in a remote island with lack of water, a lack of access to medical care or proper hygiene and sanitation," said the centre’s Jana Favero.
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The water distribution sites in Flint could soon close down.
Rich Baird, advisor to Gov.
"I need to hear from the medical and public health professionals on this issue first.
I need to hear from them before I can get behind this decision and I would hope that state officials would ask for their professional opinions as well, before shutting down the PODs.
The health and well-being of the people of Flint is too important.
We must put them first."
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Residents of the South Canterbury town of Temuka say they were horrified to learn asbestos has been discovered in the town’s water supply.
The Ministry of Health and the local council are assuring people the discovery poses no risk to their health, but many are still worried.
After the news many residents are opting to get theirs from a water tanker brought in from out of town.
"We’ve got a cancer gene in our family so I’m very hesitant to drink the water just in case," said resident Elizabeth Noakes.
The Timaru District Council made the discovery at 4:00pm on Wednesday following tests on the water after residents found clumps of fibre building up in their taps and water filters.
The council believes they’ve narrowed the source of the asbestos down to a 7 kilometre concrete pipe that runs from the water treatment plant to the town.
While residents have been assured that the water is safe to drink Robin Brokenshire won’t take the risk.
"There’s no way I’m drinking that even if they though they say it’s safe to drink," he said.
"Essentially make sure that you keep it damp double bag it in plastic and take it to the council transfer station".
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