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“I don’t think we should be poisoning people,” said Don Zomerfeld, a homeowner who lives about a mile away from Chemours, when asked Tuesday about the lawsuit.
The state is actively looking into the discharge of GenX into the Cape Fear River by the company at its Fayetteville facility.
“I’m just at the point of being stunned and disgusted,” said Zomerfeld.
In the lawsuit, the Cape Fear Public Utility Authority alleged Chemours and its predecessor, Dupont, spent more than three decades quietly discharging chemicals into the environment without telling state regulators and the public.
“Once you have a perception of a problem, it just decimates a community,” said Zomerfeld.
He knows the state announced 35 private well owners, people who live in his neighborhood, are getting bottled water from the company because the state detected GenX in their wells.
Zomerfeld wants to sell and move away, but knows that will be difficult.
“Would you buy a piece of property right now with this controversy,” he asked.
“I could always just let the mortgages go and let them take the properties back, which might be the lesser of two evils,” said Zomerfeld.