In 2017, it was publicly revealed that the Fayetteville chemical plant Chemours and its predecessor company, Dupont, had been dumping PFAS into the Cape Fear River for decades. The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality estimates nearly 7,000 residential wells have tested positive for levels of PFAS above the acceptable amount across Bladen, Cumberland, Robeson and Sampson counties.
“They were byproducts of production. So they just got discharged directly to the river or into the air,” explained North Carolina State University environmental epidemiologist Dr. Jane Hoppin, Project 1. “The requirements of testing of byproducts is so much less than something that’s an active ingredient, so we know very little.” To read the full article click HERE.