Environmental watchdog Cape Fear River Watch is claiming that chemical manufacturer Chemours has failed to clean up forever chemical pollution in groundwater around its Bladen County plant and to control the substances in air emissions coming from the facility.
There are key pollution limits written into a consent order between Cape Fear River Watch, Chemours and the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality that was originally agreed to in 2019 and then amended in early 2020. The order addresses forever chemical contamination coming from the Chemours Fayetteville Works plant near the Cape Fear River.
The environmental group on Wednesday filed a formal notice saying the company’s failure to mitigate groundwater contamination to levels required in the order mean that forever chemicals from the plant are also reaching surface water — including the Cape Fear River — at higher levels than those the company agreed to meet…