Well, here in south west Virginia, it was a company dumping waste into the Roanoke River. >Since 2014, ProChem has been servicing “vessels” — which are the sam

Well, here in south west Virginia, it was a company dumping waste into the Roanoke River. >Since 2014, ProChem has been servicing “vessels” — which are the same configuration as home water softeners and serve essentially the same purpose — that are part of the manufacturing process at a Chemours plant near Parkersburg, West Virginia. After ProChem removed calcium and magnesium compounds from the units, they were returned to Chemours. >Samples of ProChem’s wastewater that were discharged into a sewer system that leads to a Montgomery County water treatment plant showed levels of 1.3 million parts per trillion. >“If ProChem had been made aware of the presence of GenX on those vessels, it would not have accepted the order,” the company said in a statement released Friday. “As soon as this knowledge was obtained, the service of these vessels ceased.” https://roanoke.com/news/local/how-the-source-of-a-forever-chemical-in-the-roanoke-river-was-found/article_2eb1b4d2-62c4-11ed-af65-cbcc789d5dd6.html https://roanoke.com/news/local/how-the-source-of-a-forever-c... https://www.deq.virginia.gov/topics-of-interest/roanoke-river-pfas https://www.deq.virginia.gov/topics-of-interest/roanoke-rive...