Brunswick縣，北卡萊羅納州，對杜邦和科慕公司采取了第一步重要的措施以解決菲爾河的污染問題。Baron & Budd國家律師事務所已經就此事件提起訴送。該事務所正代表該縣采取法律措施核算調查和管理成本，包括減少和去除這些化學物質的成本。
通過最初的調查，Brunswick縣已經掌握了杜邦和科慕公司在費耶特維爾的公司自1980年以來，不但生產危險化學品全氟碳化合物（PFCs)，而且這些年來未進行信息披露的情況下，向菲爾河排放這些PFCs物質。這兩家公司直到2017年9月仍然持續向菲爾河排放PFCs。

北卡萊羅納州威明頓市有60000多居民的飲用水取自菲爾河。

杜邦及其衍生公司科慕公司的一個生產工廠在這個城市的上游。

這個工廠坐落于菲爾河的旁2000畝的土地上，正是在這個工廠生產這種稱為?GenX，生產過程中副產的可能會引進癌癥的化合物。

威明頓市居民要求知情這些有毒化合物是否進入城市引用水。

該公司與菲爾河公眾事業機構共同進行了一項針對河水中化合物的三年的研究。但是，正如哥倫比亞新聞公司Jericka Duncan報道，這項研究的結果從未讓大眾知曉，甚至是威明頓市市長?Bill Saffo。

關于杜邦：

杜邦光伏解決方案是全球領先的光伏材料供應商。自1975年，在全球已安裝的4億個光伏組件中，超過半數皆采用杜邦材料。

以下為原文報道（by ?Fluorochem）：

Brunswick County, North Carolina, took the first important step of addressing the long-term contamination of the Cape Fear River by DuPont and Chemours. The national law firm of Baron & Budd announced today that it has filed suit on behalf of Brunswick County in the United States Eastern District of North Carolina against Chemours and DuPont for their role in contaminating the Cape Fear River. The firm is pursuing legal action on the County’s behalf to recover costs required to investigate, manage, reduce and remove chemicals from drinking water drawn from the Cape Fear River.

Through initial investigations, Brunswick County has obtained evidence that Chemours and DuPont not only manufactured dangerous perfluorinated chemicals (“PFCs”) at the Fayetteville Works plant in Fayetteville, North Carolina since 1980, but also released PFC chemicals into the Cape Fear River over the span of many years without disclosure. The companies have continued to deposit PFCs into the river as recently as September 2017.

Some 60,000 Wilmington, N.C., residents get their drinking water from the Cape Fear River.

DuPont and its spinoff company Chemours manufacture chemicals at a plant upstream from the city.

The plant is situated on a 2,100-acre property on the Cape Fear River in Fayetteville. It is there where a chemical called GenX -- a potentially cancer-causing substance that is a byproduct of DuPont and Chemours' manufacturing processes -- is produced.

Wilmington residents are demanding to know if those toxic chemicals are making their way downriver into the city's drinking water.

The Cape Fear Public Utility Authority co-authored a three-year study on the chemical's elevated presence in the water. But as CBS News' Jericka Duncan reports, the findings were never made available to the general public -- not even to Wilmington Mayor Bill Saffo.