The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality Division of Waste Management will hold a virtual public meeting Tuesday, April 1, at 6 p.m. to provide information on the expanded well testing taking place in Cumberland, Harnett and Hoke counties.
This expansion comes after Chemours and NC DEQ staff completed an extensive review of existing residential well data around the facility and forecasted the expected areas of contamination beyond the known areas.
Approximately 150,000 additional residences have now become eligible for private well testing in the expanded area, which includes significant portions of Cumberland, Bladen, Robeson, Sampson, Hoke and Harnett counties. This will speed up the sampling process for sites that receive primary drinking water from private wells and provide access to clean water to impacted homeowners surrounding the facility. Updates on the Lower Cape Fear region will be announced in the future.
The virtual meeting may be accessed the following ways:
To listen to the meeting ONLINE:
Go to https://bit.ly/3YSigjS
Webinar Number: 2434 811 3627
Webinar Password: Chemours2025 (24366877 when dialing from a phone or video system)
To join the meeting by PHONE:
+1-415-655-0003 US toll
+1-904-900-2303 US toll
Join from a video system or application:
You can also dial 173.243.2.68 and enter your webinar number.
More information about the well testing is available here. Additional information can also be found here.
Residents interested in having their wells sampled should call Chemours at (910) 678-1101 or copy and paste this link in your browser to complete Chemours’ online form: https://edataroom.uspioneer.com/ChemoursNC. If prompted to leave a message, residents should leave their full contact information and address to ensure their call is recorded. The return call may come from Parsons Environment and Infrastructure, the authorized third-party contractor conducting the well sampling for Chemours. The private well must be the primary source of drinking water for the residence to qualify for testing.
Residents who have previously requested sampling and are newly eligible will be contacted soon by Parsons to arrange sampling. Available information about well sampling for residents in the six-county area is available online.
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