One day after a closed meeting with Chemours and local leaders, the CFPUA Board met again this morning to discuss GenX and how the utility company handled information about the toxin the area's drinking water.
Since news broke of GenX in the area's water supply, local utilities and state regulators have said they are waiting on the US Environmental Protection Agency for guidance. So what is the EPA doing?
The Cape Fear Public Utility Authority may have known about the presence of a chemical compound called GenX in the drinking water system more than a year before a newspaper story made the issue public.
Several members of the Wilmington community voiced their concerns over GenX at Wednesday's Cape Fear Public Utility Authority meeting.
The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality is leading a state investigation into reports of an unregulated chemical in the Cape Fear River.
Cape Fear Public Utility Authority customers want answers about Gen-X and it's possible contamination of our drinking water, but CFPUA board chairman Mike Brown would not answer the tough questions and even took off his microphone.
The Pender County Board of Commissioners is working with the EPA, state, and local officials to monitor the possible impacts of GenX found in the Cape Fear River.
After a week of uncertainty amid myriad questions about the safety of the drinking water in southeastern North Carolina, there may be some good news today.
Details about a meeting between local leaders and the company at the center of concerns over the safety of the drinking water in southeastern North Carolina have been slow to come together.
The Cape Fear Public Utility Authority found out about the toxin GenX in the area's water supply in November.
State regulators are waiting to hear from their federal counterparts after reports of a toxin linked to cancer and other illnesses was found in the region's drinking water supply.
Today, the Cape Fear Public Utility Authority, in whose drinking water supply GenX was found, released a service map showing where customers get their water.
The company that makes the chemical that has been found in Wilmington's drinking water supply will meet with local leaders and state regulators later this wee
Water providers are trying to reassure customers after a StarNews report about a toxin discovered in the system that serves about 200,000 people in the area with drinking water.