The move means hundreds of families with lesser levels of contamination will have to start buying water or go back to drinking their well water.
Chemours will stop giving out bottled water at its Fayetteville Works plant on Aug. 23, according to spokeswoman Lisa Randall.
The location was meant for residents whose wells were being sampled and those with wells that have levels of GenX at or above the state’s provisional health goal of 140 parts per trillion, Randall said.
Since Thursday, Chemours officials have been giving residents who pick up water at the plant a letter from plant manager Brian Long, according to Randall.
The letter cites a statement from the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services that says the health goal is a “non-regulatory, non-enforceable level of contamination below which no adverse health effects would be expected over a lifetime of exposure.” The letter said Chemours wants to be a responsible member of the community and a good neighbor.
“Should there be a change in the provisional health goal, eligible residents would receive home delivery of bottled water,” Randall said.
State officials have been investigating Chemours since news broke in June 2017 that researchers had discovered GenX in the Cape Fear River.
Tests have shown that 164 private wells around the plant have levels of GenX above the 140 parts per trillion health goal, according to Michael Scott, director of the state Division of Waste Management.
About 400 others have levels of the compound below 140 parts per trillion, he said Tuesday at a meeting hosted by the Environmental Protection Agency to discuss GenX and similar compounds.
GenX was not detected in about 220 wells that were tested, Scott said.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Lake Erie has 46,000 pieces of plastic per square kilometer.
Bottled water is twice as bad, with about 10.4 particles per liter.
"That’s 65 percent of the plastic market."
There’s no real market for recycled plastic, since you can’t know exactly what it’s in it, in order to make a new product.
Then it washes up on shore, making up about 80 percent of the litter on beaches.
Cleveland restaurants, including Market Garden and Melt, are eliminating straws to curb waste.
Here’s what else you can do to help, Mason says: Use a metal water bottle to fill up with tap water or other beverages, rather than buy disposable bottles and cups.
Bring reusable bags to do your shopping Refuse a straw at restaurants.
You could carry your own metal straw, if you want.
For example, she said, by 2050, there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish.

NORTON (CBS) – Norton town officials are warning residents about high levels of manganese in the water.
“It’s in New England water throughout New England unfortunately Norton does not have a treatment facility for it our surrounding communities do,” said Norton Water Department Superintendent Bernie Marshall.
Residents with infants are being advised to use bottled water.
Adults are still OK to drink from their faucets.
“You’d have to drink copious amounts of highly concentrated manganese water to get sick,” said Marshall.
Marshall says they town is flushing the system and cleaning their wells to removal the problem.
A new water treatment plant set to open in the fall of 2019 is expected to fix all the water problems, according to Marshall.
Residents say they’ve had dirty water for years.
“It has to be taken care of,” said resident Penny Heida.
She spends about $30 a week on bottled water.

Napier residents are still refusing to use water from their taps due to health, safety and taste/smell concerns, more than one year on from chlorination of the city’s network, a survey shows.
In the Stuff survey, 42 per cent of the 361 respondents said they didn’t drink the tap water because of the taste or smell.
Another 17 per cent said they didn’t because they did not believe it to be safe, and 6 per cent said they didn’t because of a health issue.
Nineteen per cent of respondents said they did drink the water, and didn’t understand why so many complained of it.
The extent of complaints about water clarity, odour and taste was revealed by Stuff in June.
I have had itchy skin patches and sometimes after putting some water in a small container it is a pale brown colour and left overnight there is black residue on the bottom."
Christine McIntosh drove from Taradale to Hastings every week to stock up on de-chlorinated water.
Jon Kingsford, the city council’s infrastructure director, said the council was still assessing possible locations for two de-chlorinated water stations which were approved in the council’s long-term plan.
The council did not believe there was a hysteria about drinking water.
We believe people should take all factors into account before considering if bottled water is the right choice."

NORTON, Mass.
The Town of Norton sent a letter, advising residents with infants and young children to drink bottled water.
The town is also providing free, clean water from a dispenser behind Town Hall.
But many residents told NBC 10 News that water issues in Norton have persisted for a long time.
She said it often leaves behind a sediment that has ruined her bathtub, dishwasher and appliances.
Like many residents, Heida relies mostly on bottled water, while still paying a town water bill.
Norton Town Officials have warned residents of higher than normal levels of manganese found in some wells.
Families with infants are encouraged to give them bottled water or water from the town’s dispenser, which officials claim filters out manganese.
"I don’t want to be in it," Heida said.
In the letter, officials said wells and storage tanks are cleaned on a regular basis.

That was before testing showed it had some of the highest levels of the toxic compounds of any public water system in the U.S. "You all made me out to be a liar," Hagey, general water and sewer manager in the eastern Pennsylvania town of Warminster, told Environmental Protection Agency officials last month.
At "community engagement sessions" like the one in Horsham, residents and state, local and military officials are demanding that the EPA act quickly—and decisively—to clean up local water systems testing positive for dangerous levels of the chemicals, perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS.
EPA testing from 2013 to 2015 found significant amounts of PFAS in public water supplies in 33 U.S. states.
So did scientific studies that firmed up the health risks.
Earlier this year, federal toxicologists decided that even the EPA’s 2016 advisory levels for the two phased-out versions of the compound were several times too high for safety.
Even as the Trump administration says it advocates for clean air and water, it is ceding more regulation to the states and putting a hold on some regulations seen as burdensome to business.
In Horsham and surrounding towns in eastern Pennsylvania, and at other sites around the United States, the foams once used routinely in firefighting training at military bases contained PFAS.
The chemical industry says it believes the versions of the nonstick, stain-resistant compounds in use now are safe, in part because they don’t stay in the body as long as older versions.
"If the risk appears to be high, and you’ve got it every place, then you’ve got a different level" of danger and urgency, Clough said.
"That’s not what you want to do when you’re protecting the public health."

In Warminster and surrounding towns in eastern Pennsylvania, and at other sites around the United States, the foams once used routinely in firefighting training at military bases contained per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS.
That was before testing showed it had some of the highest levels of the toxic compounds of any public water system in the U.S. “You all made me out to be a liar,” Hagey, general water and sewer manager in the eastern Pennsylvania town of Warminster, told Environmental Protection Agency officials at a hearing last month.
The meeting drew residents and officials from Horsham and other affected towns in eastern Pennsylvania, and officials from some of the other dozens of states dealing with the same contaminants.
At “community engagement sessions” around the country this summer like the one in Horsham, residents and state, local and military officials are demanding that the EPA act quickly — and decisively — to clean up local water systems testing positive for dangerous levels of the chemicals, perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS.
Earlier this year, federal toxicologists decided that even the EPA’s 2016 advisory levels for the two phased-out versions of the compound were several times too high for safety.
In Horsham and surrounding towns in eastern Pennsylvania, and at other sites around the United States, the foams once used routinely in firefighting training at military bases contained PFAS.
The chemical industry says it believes the versions of the nonstick, stain-resistant compounds in use now are safe, in part because they don’t stay in the body as long as older versions.
In Delaware, National Guard troops handed out water after high levels of PFAS were found in a town’s water supply.
“If the risk appears to be high, and you’ve got it every place, then you’ve got a different level” of danger and urgency, Clough said.
In 2005, under President George W. Bush, the EPA and DuPont settled an EPA complaint that the chemical company knew at least by the mid-1980s that the early PFAS compound posed a substantial risk to human health.

That was before testing showed it had some of the highest levels of the toxic compounds of any public water system in the U.S. "You all made me out to be a liar," Hagey, general water and sewer manager in the eastern Pennsylvania town of Warminister, told Environmental Protection Agency officials last month.
At "community engagement sessions" like the one in Horsham near the former Naval Air Warfare Center Warminster, residents and state, local and military officials are demanding that the EPA act quickly — and decisively — to clean up local water systems testing positive for dangerous levels of the chemicals, perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS.
In Warminster and surrounding towns in eastern Pennsylvania, and at other sites around the United States, the foams once used routinely in firefighting training at military bases contained perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS.
Earlier this year, federal toxicologists decided that even the EPA’s 2016 advisory levels for the two phased-out versions of the compound were several times too high for safety.
In Warminster and surrounding towns in eastern Pennsylvania, and at other sites around the U.S., foams once used routinely in firefighting training at military bases contained perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS.
Even as the Trump administration says it advocates for clean air and water, it is ceding more regulation to the states and putting a hold on some regulations seen as burdensome to business.
The chemical industry says it believes the versions of the nonstick, stain-resistant compounds in use now are safe, in part because they don’t stay in the body as long as older versions.
In Delaware, National Guard troops handed out water after high levels of PFAS were found in a town’s water supply.
"If the risk appears to be high, and you’ve got it every place, then you’ve got a different level" of danger and urgency, Clough said.
"That’s not what you want to do when you’re protecting the public health."

In Warminster and surrounding towns in eastern Pennsylvania, and at other sites around the United States, the foams once used routinely in firefighting training at military bases contained per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS.
That was before testing showed it had some of the highest levels of the toxic compounds of any public water system in the U.S. “You all made me out to be a liar,” Hagey, general water and sewer manager in the eastern Pennsylvania town of Warminster, told Environmental Protection Agency officials last month.
At “community engagement sessions” like the one in Horsham, residents and state, local and military officials are demanding that the EPA act quickly — and decisively — to clean up local water systems testing positive for dangerous levels of the chemicals, perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS.
So did scientific studies that firmed up the health risks.
Earlier this year, federal toxicologists decided that even the EPA’s 2016 advisory levels for the two phased-out versions of the compound were several times too high for safety.
Even as the Trump administration says it advocates for clean air and water, it is ceding more regulation to the states and putting a hold on some regulations seen as burdensome to business.
In Horsham and surrounding towns in eastern Pennsylvania, and at other sites around the United States, the foams once used routinely in firefighting training at military bases contained PFAS.
The chemical industry says it believes the versions of the nonstick, stain-resistant compounds in use now are safe, in part because they don’t stay in the body as long as older versions.
In Delaware, National Guard troops handed out water after high levels of PFAS were found in a town’s water supply.
In 2005, under President George W. Bush, the EPA and DuPont settled an EPA complaint that the chemical company knew at least by the mid-1980s that the early PFAS compound posed a substantial risk to human health.

STRATFORD, Calif. (KFSN) — The town of Stratford is without drinking water this evening after both of the wells, their water system runs on, failed.
Sunday morning Diane and Billy Griffith woke up to the unimaginable.
"It’s devastating.
It really hits you hard when it happens at home," said Stratford resident Diane Griffith.
Using what is left of the water in their trailer to shower and bottled water to hydrate and cook, the couple says their main concern is for others.
We have the elderly in this town," said Diane.
"Some of the structure where the water pulls through failed and were getting sand in the system –so the pump, so we had to shut those pumps off to not cause more damage to those pumps," said S.P.U.D President Jeff Gonzalez.
"We have had failures on that first well.
We just keep going and doing the best we can to keep the water going," said Gonzalez.
Once those repairs are made, it will take several days for the district to flush the distribution system, test the water, and receive authorization from the Division of Drinking Water to lift the "do not drink your water" notice.