Residents of two North Carolina counties fear a wave of serious disease, cancers and miscarriages is the result of decades of drinking tap water contaminated with toxic ‘forever chemicals’.
The tap water in Brunswick County and Wilmington, located in the southeast of North Carolina, is among the most toxic in the country when it comes to concentrations of PFAS – tiny compounds that are not broken down by nature or the human body, with levels up to 155 times above what health officials deem acceptable.
Experts are pointing the finger at a chemical plant in Fayetteville, which they say has been dumping poisonous chemicals into the Cape Fear River Basin – which serves as the primary drinking water supply for over 1.5 million North Carolinians – since the 1980s.
The issue only came to light in 2017, when residents and local doctors started to join the dots and come to terms with the many cases of severe and sometimes fatal illnesses that they were seeing. Brunswick County native and public health activist Emily Donovan told DailyMail.com: ‘People were sick all the time here, desperately sick.’
A 2020 analysis of hundreds of blood samples taken from people in the Cape Fear River Basin appeared to confirm their fears. It showed that those in the area had levels of forever chemicals, or PFAS, in their blood at levels up to 66 times higher than the government says is safe.
The contaminants have been dumped by this, a DuPont company, for thirty plus years.
DuPont is highly favored by Biden.