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Fluoride Q coming to Rangely ballot
RANGELY | The Town of Rangely will be the next local entity to decide if it wants to keep fluoridating the town’s water supply. The Board of Trustees approved a resolution Tuesday to present fluoridation to voters in the April election. The measure passed by a narrow margin in Meeker this month. Rangely trustees heard […]
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Arvada to halt water fluoridation due to hazardous leak
Arvada will stop adding fluoride to its water temporarily, due to a leaking tank at the Ralston Water Treatment plant. “The city has notified dentists in Arvada and encourages residents to consult their dental health provider about ways to maintain dental health,” reads the city’s website. Arvada used a liquid fluoride system, but the leaking […]
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Arvada has stopped adding fluoride to drinking water until mid-summer
Arvadans, brush your teeth extra good. At least until summer. On Monday, the city announced that it will not be able to add supplemental fluoride to its municipal water supply because a tank storing liquid fluoride at its Ralston Water Treatment Plant is leaking and efforts to fix the tank have been unsuccessful. The city […]
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Meeker residents to vote on fluoridation this fall
Fluoride. It’s everywhere MEEKER | Since the late 1940s, fluoride—the ionic form of fluorine, which is the 13th most abundant element in the earth’s crust and is found naturally in water and air—started being added to some public drinking water supplies in the United States and Canada as a means of preventing dental caries, or […]
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Colorado’s legislative, executive branches open to improved oral healthcare access
Colorado state Sen. Dominick Moreno and the Polis administration expressed interest Monday in the licensure of dental therapists in Colorado to improve access to oral healthcare. “With most Colorado counties designated as dental health professional shortage areas, we decided we must take action,” Lt. Gov. Dianne Primavera said. “We must acknowledge that 53 million Americans […]
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PFOS: CDPHE advises people with wells in Woodmen Valley to drink bottled water
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is advising residents with wells in Woodmen Valley to avoid drinking or cooking with the possibly contaminated water. Instead, state health officials advise residents to drink bottled water or install a reverse osmosis filtration system. The recommendation comes as the state agency awaits […]
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Letter: Don’t drink Durango’s fluoridated water
A recent landmark study examines the association between fluoride exposure during pregnancy and IQ scores of children. In this study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Pediatrics, the authors found higher levels of fluoride through water fluoridation during pregnancy is associated with lower IQ scores in children 3-4 years old. The study […]
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Closed Mine Blamed For Fluoride Shortage In Longmont
LONGMONT, Colo. (CBS4) – Fluoride in the water has often been linked to keeping teeth healthy. However, the City of Longmont has run out of it, and this could happen to other cities. (credit: CBS) “So you can see the empty pallets where our product would normally sit,” Bob Allen, Longmont Operations Director said, inside […]
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Loveland unaffected by fluoridation woes
Cities use different forms of tooth-decay-fighting element, staff says Loveland’s water will remain fluoridated at the federally recommended rate of 0.7 milligrams per liter, despite a shortage of the water treatment chemical sodium fluorosilicate. While Longmont, Greeley, Denver and other Front Range communities rely on the compound to fluoridate their water supplies, Loveland uses a […]
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Longmont stops fluoridation in light of global fluoride shortage
The city of Longmont has run out of fluoride at the Nelson-Flanders Water Treatment Plant. The City of Longmont has fluoridated its water supply since 1958, but due to the last sodium fluoride mine in the country shutting down its operations this year, supplies have been restricted all along the front range, leading Longmont to […]
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