Systems to remove C8 from water months from completion

By Brian Farkas
Associated Press
Cleveland Plain Dealer
12/27/2005, 5:03 p.m. ET

(AP) — A village administrator in southeast Ohio says he is hopeful that by the end of February a chemical used to produce Teflon at a nearby DuPont Co. plant won't show up in the community's water supply.

Pomeroy's treatment plant is expected to be the first of six water districts in Ohio and West Virginia where carbon filters will remove ammonium perfluorooctanoate, also known as C8, from water drawn from the village's wells. Read moreC8groundwaterammonium perfluorooctanoatedupont