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Results of water contamination tests from 137 wells in Wood County will be made
known next week.
Customers of the Lubeck Public Service District in Wood County sued DuPont last
summer claiming their water supply was contaminated by a chemical produced at the
Washington Works plant. The chemical is known as C8 and is used in the making of
Teflon.
DuPont, which has produced the chemical for 50 years, maintains the discharges
from their plant have been safe, and the level of the chemical found in area water
supplies is negligible.
Water samples are also being taken from the Ohio River and other water supply
systems along a 60-mile stretch of the river.
Ohio River contamination, while it has improved, has resulted in warnings against
eating fish from the river for several years. Fishermen from the region still flock to the
river for recreational fishing.
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