Groundwater contaminated near Chemours plant; DEQ issues Notice of Violation

[TexasTowelie]

Thirteen of 14 monitoring wells near Chemours’s Fayetteville plant exceeded state groundwater standards for GenX and other perfluorinated compounds, prompting state environmental officials to issue a Notice of Violation to the company.

The NC Department of Environmental Quality announced the results today. The groundwater monitoring wells are not a source of drinking water.

DEQ and the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services also alerted health officials in Bladen and Cumberland counties to the preliminary test results. The state said it will perform initial testing for people who live near Chemours while requiring the company to produce a comprehensive testing and compliance plan.

The immediate area around the plant, which lies south of Fayetteville, is woods and a solar farm, but there are homes within a mile and Camp Dixie, a summer retreat for kids is within two miles. The flow of groundwater depends on several factors, including slope, soil type and the nature of the bedrock.

Read more: http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2017/09/06/groundwater-contaminated-near-chemours-plant-deq-issues-notice-violation/

[Dustlawyer]

1. That water always goes somewhere eventiually.

Then our environment gets just a little more toxic. All because we allow legalized bribery to elect our politicians. No investigations of Quid Pro Quo's.

The testing wells give me an idea. They drill them around refineries and chemical plants, sometimes just to check (subject to budgetary limitations of the agencies, usually in response to complaints. Why can't we have our our little Quid Pro Quo testing wells and periodically exam campaign donations vs. voting records? Look at timing of donation, amounts, previous public statements of the politician and his/her voting record on the issues?

Maybe that would help us to get the money out of our elections?