Tag: Carbon Filters

Chemours to Pay for Carbon Filter Installation in Vienna

A company has agreed to pay for the installation of carbon filters in Vienna’s water treatment plant.

Vienna Mayor Randy Rapp says the installation paid for by Wilmington, Delaware-based Chemours Co. will begin immediately.

Rapp told the Parkersburg News and Sentinel the filters are temporary while construction begins on a permanent facility.

West Virginia officials issued a “Do Not Drink” advisory last week for Vienna water after the Environmental Protection Agency announced a new limit for the chemical C8 present in Wood County’s drinking water. C8 levels in the city’s water source are slightly above the new limit.

C8 was used until 2013 in the manufacture of Teflon at the DuPont Washington Works plant along the Ohio River. Chemours is a spinoff of DuPont’s performance chemicals division.

WVAW Changing Carbon Filters at Charleston Plant

West Virginia American Water is beginning the long process of changing water filters that were in place during the Jan. 9 chemical spill that contaminated drinking water for more than 300,000 people.

Water company spokeswoman Laura Jordan says the process begins Monday and may take eight weeks or longer. She says only two of the water plant’s 16 filters can be changed each week while maintaining service.
 
Residents have expressed concern that these filters have not already been changed. Some have demanded they be changed in letters to the company.

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In February, water company president Jeff McIntyre told the Legislature changing the filters would be both costly and unnecessary.

At that time, lawmakers told him changing the filters would go a long way to boost the public’s trust.

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