SOUTHEASTERN NC (WWAY) — Chemours plans to install and maintain whole house granular activated carbon filtration systems for residents whose drinking water wells show high levels of GenX.
According to a news release from Chemours, the GAC pilot filtration program has been a success.
The company plans to install the filtration system in homes where wells tested above the provisional health goal of 140 parts per trillion for GenX.
“We’re committed to making whole-house GAC filtration systems available now to impacted residents, at no cost to them, to ensure they can turn on any faucet and access drinking water throughout the entire house without concern.” Long said that results of pilot studies of the GAC filtration units requested by the NC Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) prove without a doubt that GenX and all similar compounds from drinking water.
The most recent data from each of the six pilot locations showed that all tested substances were at undetectable levels after carbon filtration in every pilot site.
In fact, GenX concentrations are being removed to 100 times less than the 140 ng/L health goal.” DEQ selected the six pilot sites and an independent laboratory has conducted sampling biweekly at each property to analyze the effectiveness of the filtration units over time in removing GenX and similar compounds.
That locally collected data support previous available studies that demonstrate the effectiveness of granular activated carbon filtration in removing GenX and similar compounds.
Chemours says the offer is unconditional and requires no commitments, costs or obligations to homeowners other than agreeing to have the systems installed on their property and coordinating with the company’s installation and sampling teams to complete their work.
The company has been providing delivery of bottled drinking water to impacted homeowners.
Impacted residents who decline the GAC filtration offer will continue to receive home delivery of bottled drinking water or, should they prefer as an alternative to bottled water, will receive a Lowes or Home Depot gift card for use in purchasing an under-the-sink reverse-osmosis treatment unit.