Previous Community Impact Campaigns

Water Wednesdays

In June 2017, seven community leaders, educators, and professionals gathered around a dining room table one Sunday afternoon and brainstormed how to get reliable, factual information to the public regarding GenX in our drinking water. Three short days later Clean Cape Fear was born and we hosted our first Water Wednesday: Community Forum on GenX on June 21, 2017.  The response was tremendous with more than 400 concerned citizens from New Hanover and Brunswick counties in attendance.  

Transparency and accountability are important aspects of a thriving community.  We worked to provide three cutting edge Water Wednesday public forum each focused on a different topic to help empower our community to self advocate.

Stop It At The Source Campaign

In 2017 and 2018, Clean Cape Fear channeled public outcry into actionable items. We educated and elevated way community members could empower themselves to demand change. We made residents aware of the chronic defunding of our state regulatory agencies and the immediate relief lawmakers could provide NC’s Governor to address our PFAS contamination crisis. We called on elected officials to stop taking campaign donations from chemical companies; as well as, divest from any investments in chemical company stocks using public funds. We demanded Chemours provide reparations to our damaged communities.

Defend or Defund DEQ Tracker

In August 2017, NC’s Governor issued an action plan to address our PFAS public health crisis. To implement this plan the Governor requested $2.5 million to provide NC’s Department of Environmental Quality and Department of Health & Human Services with the resources needed to address our region’s PFAS chemical contamination. Clean Cape Fear created an awareness campaign to monitor which lawmakers were for or against this necessary funding. The public used this information as a voting guide during the 2018 mid-term elections.