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The Cape Fear Public Utility Authority recently released its annual water quality report as

well as supplemental voluntary testing, and our Water Nerds dug through it!

Make sure to comment below to suggest which municipality our Water Nerds should tackle

next.

This past year, we've been tracking Perfluorinated Compounds, like GenX, in North Carolina waterways.

GenX and other Perfluorinated Compounds are associated with firefighting foam, non-stick

cookware, Scotchguard and other heat resistant products.

This category of chemicals are "emerging contaminants" which means they are thought

to pose a potential threat to human health and the environment, but have yet to be regulated.

Perfluorinated Compounds contribute to environmental contamination largely due to the fact that

they are highly resistant to the degradation process and can persist in the environmental

for many years.

The Sweeney Water Treatment Plant was the only Cape Fear Public Utility Authority plant

that detected Perfluorinated Compounds in the drinking water.

This years report included voluntary test data from 44 of these compounds.

The two perfluorinated compounds that are the most commonly known and most frequently

researched are Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and Perfluorooctane-sulfonic acid (PFOS).

PFOA was detected at 9.3 parts per trillion and PFOS was detected at 10 parts per trillion.

And finally, GenX was detected at 9 parts per trillion at the Sweeney Plant.

The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) recently recommended setting

a Minimum Risk Level of 20 parts per trillion for both of these substances.

This same study however did not include a toxicity profile for GenX.

These data provided by the ATSDR are preliminary and the effects to human health are still

unknown.

Although PFOA and PFOS are the most well-known, there are several other potentially dangerous

contaminants that regulatory agencies and scientists need to continue to research.

For example, 1, 4 Dioxane, which has been present in the Cape Fear River for years.

1, 4 Dioxane is a chlorinated solvent that is widely manufactured in the US.

The EPA has yet to set a Maximum Contaminant Level for this compound, but it does have

a non-enforceable health advisory level of 0.35 parts per trillion.

Because this is such a prominent issue, Hydroviv has dedicated several articles and videos

to GenX and other Per and Polyfluoroalkyl Substance which you can find at hydroviv.com.

Our Water Nerds are on the lookout for other cities to cover.

If you would like us to see what's going on in your hometown, please let us know and comment

below!

Also, If you have any questions about this report or anything else water related, drop

us a line at hello@hydroviv.com, or visit hydroviv.com and use our live chat.

Our Water Nerds are based in Washington DC and can gladly answer any questions you might

have.

For more infomation >> Cape Fear Public Utility Authority Water Quality Assessment: What You Need To Know - Duration: 2:59.

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Traitor John McCain's Damning Secret Goes Public – THIS IS TREASON - Duration: 11:37.

Traitor John McCain's Damning Secret Goes Public – THIS IS TREASON

Senator John McCain's true colors have really bled out over the past year, haven't they?

The more we learn, the more we realize just how much of an impact he had on Donald Trump's

presidential election run in 2016.

Now, despite McCain's claims that he had little involvement in the whole Trump Dossier

mess, a new book proves quite the opposite.

The aforementioned dossier, the work of anti-Trumpers in the DNC and Hillary Clinton's camp, has

since been largely discredited, but it caused quite the stir initially.

And it probably would've been dismissed as a bunch of garbage had it not been for

McCain, who heard about this dossier and apparently took matters into his own hands.

In a book entitled, "Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and

the Election of Donald Trump," we learn that McCain's treachery began early.

Via Breitbart: "In their work, Isikoff and Corn relate

how McCain first heard about the dossier and how the Arizona senator dispatched a close

associate, David J. Kramer, a former State Department official, to retrieve a physical

copy.

Consistent with another recent report in the Washington Post, the authors write that McCain

was told about the dossier at a security conference in Canada by Sir Andrew Wood, a former British

ambassador to Moscow and friend of Steele.

McCain in turn dispatched Kramer to meet Steele in England to view the dossier."

In short, McCain's delivery of the dossier to then-FBI director James Comey added a ton

of urgency to the issue, and thrust it into the limelight:

"…The Bureau already had the memos.

But now that one of the Senate's most influential members was worked up about the Steele dossier,

it became a more urgent matter."

And as we all know, that Dossier really hurt Trump's chances for a while, and he had

to overcome all those false Russia rumors.

Thankfully, however, he did, despite McCain's best efforts to derail Donald's rise

to office.