Farmers, neighbors worry about GenX in groundwater
Story Date: 12/6/2017

 

Source: WRAL, 12/5/17

Up and down Pages Lake Road in Bladen County, residents have a new worry about the release of a chemical from a nearby manufacturing plant.A representative of the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality told a science advisory board Monday that honey collected by a beekeeper there tested for GenX and found levels nearly 15 times higher than the health goal set by state officials.

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