Dupont's C8 Contamination Widespread, Epa Says

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In June 1984, officials from DuPont Co. put together a list of sampling results from drinking water near the company's Parkersburg chemical plant. The list, called "Update on C8 in water samples," was marked "personal and confidential."

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Dupont's C8 Contamination Widespread, Epa Says

A March sample from Washington showed 1.2 parts per billion. A June sample from Lubeck found 1.5 parts per billion.

Over the next few years, DuPont found similar concentrations of C8, a chemical it had used for decades to make Teflon products, in water supplies downstream from its Washington Works pl...

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