| Public and private water supplies near a Wood County DuPont plant will have stricter controls regarding DuPont's dumping of C-8 for a chemical used to produce Teflon.
The new agreement between DuPont and the EPA, the allowable amount of C-8 in water supplies will be temporarily reduced from 150 parts per billion to point-five parts per billion.
The agreement says ff the chemical is found to exceed the new lower level in water testing, DuPont must agree to filter the water, or provide an alternative water supply to residents.
The agreement comes out of a 2004 court settlement that requires DuPont to install filtration systems at six public water treatments systems in Ohio and West Virginia.
It also requires DuPont to conduct a survey to determine if additional public and private water supplies near DuPont's Washington Works plant should be filtered.
Studies continue on whether the unregulated chemical is hazardous to human health.
DuPont says the chemical has not caused health problems to its employees of community members, but most of the previous studies have been done by the company.
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