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Fluoride to be added to City of Wilmington water this week
The city received an Ohio Department of Health grant of $86,417.17 — plus an interest-free loan from Ohio EPA — to support implementation of fluoridation. WILMINGTON — The City of Wilmington will begin adding fluoride to its drinking water on Thursday, Feb. 25. It will take about three days for fluoridated water to reach all […]
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Ohio School Fluoride Program
The Ohio Department of Health is no longer able to provide supplies for administering Fluoride in the school setting. Students previously were able to participate in the SWISH program for weekly dental fluoride treatments during the school year. As a result, James A. Garfield students will not be receiving this service beginning with the current […]
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NNSA Plans to Take Some Portsmouth DUF6 for Weapons Programs
The National Nuclear Security Administration has decided to use a cleanup facility in Ohio to help produce high-purity depleted uranium metal for nuclear weapons programs. The semiautonomous Department of Energy weapons agency will do that by installing a fourth process line at the depleted uranium hexafluoride conversion facility at the Portsmouth Site near Piketon, Ohio, […]
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‘Forever Chemicals’ Ruin Dairies
CLOVIS, N.M. (DTN) — Food may be the next frontier in research on a wide array of potentially toxic chemicals increasingly showing up in drinking water and groundwater nationally. Art Schaap and Fred Stone milk dairy cows more than 2,000 miles from each other, but right now, neither one of them can sell their milk. […]
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Public Hearing Presentation on Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride
The following are excerpts from a powerpoint presentation at a Public Hearing on the Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for Disposition of Depleted Uranium Oxide Conversion Product Generated from DOE’s Inventory of Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride (DOE/EIS-0359-S1; DOE/EIS-0360-S1). The maps and other details in the ppt were not accessible for coping. Background •DOE operates depleted uranium […]
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Portsmouth & Paducah Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride
Portsmouth & Paducah Facility Impacts On June 18, 2004, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) issued environmental impact statements for the construction and operation of facilities to convert depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) to depleted uranium (DU) oxide at DOE’s Paducah Site in Kentucky and Portsmouth Site in Ohio. Both the Final Environmental Impact Statement for Construction and […]
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Springfield fluoride issue fails, will not be added to city water
UPDATE: 10 p.m. The Springfield city fluoride issue failed at the balllot box Tuesday. More than 53 percent of voters rejected the issue. *A subscription is needed to access this article (which has little other information on the vote) at https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/local/springfield-fluoride-issue-fails-will-not-added-city-water/3wghRVBgKkSq9KkK4ktL7M/ Print PDF
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Springfield voters set to decide whether to add fluoride to city water
Springfield residents will head to the polls Nov. 6 to decide whether they want to add fluoride to the city water supply. Those in favor of the move say it will improve oral health in the city and say the limited amount of fluoride added to the water poses no health risks. Those against adding […]
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Lawsuit demands 3M pay for PFC medical studies nationwide
Ohio class action targets nonstick chemical implicated in groundwater contamination. An unusual federal lawsuit against 3M Co. and other manufacturers of a widely used nonstick chemical demands that the companies pay for nationwide medical studies to measure its health impact on hundreds of millions of people who now carry it in their blood. The class-action […]
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Hazmat crew responds to scene in Warren County
WARREN COUNTY — UPDATE @ 1:30 p.m.: Emergency crews responded today after chemicals used to treat water from a Warren County wellfield were incorrectly mixed, according to an official with the county Water & Sewer Department. About 10 gallons of bleach were incorrectly mixed into a fluoride tank, creating a reaction, said Chris Brausch, director of […]
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