After reviewing the proposed Chemours Consent Order, it’s clear why the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality released the news on Nov. 21.
WaterPIO is currently working for Belville, assisting with its efforts to complete a groundwater reverse-osmosis plant.
We also are helping the Cape Fear Public Utility Authority with communications under a short-term agreement.
On Wednesday, CFPUA made public a report prepared for Chemours that shows PFAS was still entering the Cape Fear River around the plant this summer.
Contamination jumped from 77.7 parts-per-trillion above the Fayetteville plant to 207.1 parts-per-trillion below it.
This highlights the glaring problem with the proposed consent order — it would give Chemours valuable cover for its past pollution.
4 — making 300,000 people living in the Lower Cape Fear Region whole by paying to clean up their tainted drinking water.
That leads us to the people who lose out the most under this agreement: Our region’s water utilities and their customers.
Chemours made a profit of $765 million last year and an estimated $275 million last quarter.
The deadline for public comment is Dec. 21.