. >> sreenivasan: in a rural pocket of fayetteville, north carolina, mike watters has three drinking water wells on his five-acre property, but in the past three months, he has stopped using the water altogether. when did you figure out that your water is not safe? >> 6 september of this year. we had no clue. we've been drinking the water, feeding it to our dogs, our parrots. we knew something was odd, but 6 september chemours came in. they had a letter and said, "we want to test your wells. do you give us permission?" >> sreenivasan: a spinoff of the chemical giant dupont, chemours has a chemical plant just more than a mile away, watters, has lived here since 2012 with his wife and son. he's a veteran, former special forces, and works at nearby fort bragg. he had no inkling that his water might be contaminated until the company tested his well and told him it had an unsafe level of an unregulated chemical known as genx. watters paid $800 to have his own analysis done, which showed genx at 236 parts per trillion, well above the state's health goal of 140. the company has told him the