WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — North Carolina Department Environmental Quality Secretary Reid Wilson toured the Sweeny Water Treatment Plant alongside local elected officials Friday.
Wilson was there to view the facility’s granular activated carbon filters, which work to filter forever chemicals like Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances—also known as PFAS—out of the water supply.
The filters cost Cape Fear Public Utility Authority $43 million to build, plus another $3.7 million to operate annually. They were installed to remove harmful forever chemicals dumped into the Cape Fear River by polluters upstream. CFPUA is in active litigation with Chemours—formerly DuPont—over decades of PFAS pollution…