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Southport discusses hot button issues in community workshop January 11, 2022     Peyton Furtado The Drinking Water Crisis That North Carolina Ignored For decades, DuPont dumped toxic PFAS into North Carolina’s Cape Fear River. Today, the local community is suffering the health consequences—and fighting back. June 07, 2021   Nicole Greenfield   When the Wilmington, North Carolina,  StarNews   broke a story  in 2017 about the  rampant contamination  of the region’s drinking water supply by a chemical called GenX, Tom Kennedy had just finished four months of chemotherapy for his stage 2 breast cancer. During the radiation treatment that followed, Kennedy, then 45, learned that the cancer had metastasized to his brain, newly classifying him as a stage 4 terminal patient with 6 to 12 months to live. Four years later, with some 60 rounds of chemotherapy under his belt, he’s still going strong. But also four years later, the Cape Fear River watershe...