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CFPUA SANITARY SEWER OVERFLOW: Area of Shirley Road Park

Cape Fear Public Utility Authority (CFPUA) crews responded to a residential sewer backup report that occurred on July 17, 2018, in the area of Shirley Road Park. When crews arrived on site at 8:13 am, they discovered sewer overflowing from several utility...

CFPUA Issues Traffic Advisory for Greenfield Street starting Monday, July 16

A contractor crew working on behalf of CFPUA will be making a sanitary sewer point repair. Crews will close Greenfield Street the morning of Monday, July 16. For more information, please see the traffic control maps below.

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Response to Questions on Calgon Carbon Corp & CFPUA Comments on Proposed Action Against Chemours

CFPUA Responds to Questions Regarding Calgon Carbon Corporation

Cape Fear Public Utility Authority’s top priority is to ensure that we are providing our customers with safe and reliable drinking water—a mission that requires the use of ...

CFPUA Receives $450,000 in Research Funding & Water Sampling at Chemours

CFPUA Receives $450,000 in Research Funding from General Assembly 

On June 12, the North Carolina General Assembly passed the “Current Operations Appropriations Act of 2018”—a bill that modifies the current operating ...

Meter Retrofitting to Change Look of Customer Bills

Cape Fear Public Utility Authority is currently in the process of retrofitting approximately 15,000 meters with a technology that will make them compatible with our new meter reading software. For affected customers, the retrofit will produce a one-time c...

CFPUA RELEASES 2017 WATER QUALITY REPORT and LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

CFPUA Releases 2017 water Quality Report

As a public water supplier, CFPUA is required by federal law to produce and distribute a Water Quality Report to its customers by July 1^st of each year. In this year’s report, you will find information on ...

CFPUA Statement on Recently Released DHHS Report

CFPUA Statement on Recently Released DHHS Report

Yesterday afternoon, the Agency for Toxic Substances & Disease Registry (ATSDR), a unit within the United States Department of Health and Human Services, released an updated Draft Toxicological Profile f...

CFPUA Acknowledges Release of a US DHHS Report on PFAS Health Impacts

Cape Fear Public Utility Authority is aware of the release of a United States Department of Health and Human Services report on the health impacts of certain PFAS compounds. CFPUA staff has a copy of the report, and we are currently working to understand ...

Don't Forget to Give CFPUA Your Feedback and Website Updates

Share Your Thoughts: CFPUA Conducts Customer Survey on GenX and the Sweeney Water Treatment Plant

This month, CFPUA is conducting a customer survey on GenX and the potential upgrade to the Sweeney Water Treatment Plant. The survey is meant to provide custo...

CFPUA to Conduct Routine Flushing Maintenance During the Summer Months

Beginning, Tuesday, May 29, 2018, and continuing throughout the summer, CFPUA water quality crews will conduct flushing. Flushing is a routine maintenance operation performed by CFPUA to improve water quality. During this activity, water is forced through...

Veterans Park Water Station Open to Public

As announced on March 5, CFPUA now has a second water station open to the public at Veterans Park. As with the station in Ogden park, this station takes water from a groundwater source that does not contain GenX. The station is open everyday from 8:00am t...