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Company fined $200K over water treatment problems
April 1, 2021
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WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) North Carolina regulators have fined a company nearly $200,000 over problems with water treatment systems designed to stop contaminated wastewater from reaching the Cape Fear River, the primary drinking water source for an estimated 350,000 downstream residents.
The state Department of Environmental Quality says The Chemours Co. isn’t keeping manmade “forever chemicals” out of the river, the StarNews of Wilmington reports. The fines imposed Wednesday were for violations related to the company’s failure to properly construct and install water treatment measures at its Fayetteville Works plant, according to the newspaper.
The state is penalizing Chemours nearly $200,000 for failing to protect downstream communities by preventing residual per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, contamination at its Fayetteville Works site from flowing into the river.
The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality assessed $198,929.16 in penalties in the recent enforcement actions against Chemours for failing to meet conditions of the consent order signed in 2019 and violations related to the construction and installation of the required treatment measures at Old Outfall 002 and Seep C at its Fayetteville Works facility, the department announced Wednesday.
“DEQ is committed to protecting communities and their water quality and ensuring that Chemours meets all its requirements and obligations, including those under the Consent Order to prevent PFAS from entering the Cape Fear River,” said Secretary Dionne Delli-Gatti in a statement. “We will take all appropriate enforcement actions, whenever they fa
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