PFAS Water Contamination Lawsuit Attorney in Wilmington, North Carolina

Chemours' Fayetteville Works plant in Bladen County — approximately 100 miles upstream from Wilmington on the Cape Fear River — has been discharging GenX chemicals (HFPO-DA) and other PFAS into the Cape Fear River since approximately 2006. The public became aware of this contamination only in 2017, after a North Carolina State University researcher discovered GenX in the river following Chemours' disclosure to the EPA without public notification. Subsequent testing found GenX in Wilmington's tap water at concentrations above EPA health advisory levels. The Cape Fear Public Utility Authority — serving approximately 200,000 Wilmington-area residents — has spent tens of millions of dollars on PFAS filtration and filed suit against Chemours. Wilmington-area residents who consumed Cape Fear River water between 2006 and 2017+ — and who were diagnosed with PFAS-linked conditions — have a particularly strong delayed discovery argument: they had no way to know their water was contaminated before the 2017 public disclosure. This means that residents diagnosed as far back as 2014 may have timely claims under NC's 3-year discovery rule. The Chemours/GenX contamination is the top-priority content gap identified in the research report — only Motley Rice has any meaningful local NC PFAS content.