Fayetteville’s Public Works Commission 2025 Water Quality Report found that Fayetteville’s drinking water meets or surpasses all EPA and state standards for safety and quality, and upgrades are underway to reduce PFAS.
PWC performs more than 150,000 tests annually on 10.5 billion gallons of treated water. For 2025, no violations of maximum contaminant levels were found across disinfectants, metals, radiological contaminants or disinfection byproducts. The water sources tested were the Cape Fear River, Big Cross Creek, and Little Cross Creek, including Glenville, Bonnie Doone and Kornbow lakes and Mintz Pond.
PFAS — or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, including GenX — have been found in PWC’s sampling; however, the reports of GenX being discharged are more than 20 miles downstream of where PWC takes water for treatment, according to the report…