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Lebanon will put fluoride on the ballot
Fluoride has been in Lebanon’s water system for more than 20 years, but next year, city residents will decide if they’ll eliminate it. That’s because the Lebanon City Council approved a motion Wednesday night, Dec. 13, to add a question on the November 2024 ballot: Should the city nix the chemical additive which helps prevent […]
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Will Voters Settle The Fluoride Debate?
The City Council discussed fluoridation of water, approved a Republic Services trash rate increase, approved an ordinance to reduce fees for construction of accessory dwelling units, and announced the Lebanon Downtown Association is back in good standing during the Nov. 8 meeting. Fluoridated water The council discussed the issue of fluoridated water and chose to […]
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Fluoride’s future in doubt in Lebanon
Fluoride may face an uncertain future in Lebanon’s drinking water. That’s because the Lebanon City Council approved a motion this week to consider asking the voters next year whether the mineral should be eliminated from the city’s water supply. The motion doesn’t mean the council will automatically approve a measure for the ballot, just that […]
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Sublimity fluoride ballot measure
Voters in Sublimity were choosing to keep adding fluoride to their water. The city 15 miles east of Salem asked its residents if they wanted to continue to put fluoride in the drinking water, a practice the city has undertaken since 1955. Sublimity is one of 29 in the state that adds fluoride to its […]
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City of Lebanon: Notice of Receipt of Ballot Title to end fluoridation
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Lebanon received a prospective initiative petition that complies with constitutional requirements. On May 4, 2022 the City Recorder received from the City Attorney the following draft ballot title for Initiative Petition #LEB2022-01. CAPTION: Removal of Fluorosilicic Acid from Lebanon Water Supply. QUESTION: Shall the City of Lebanon […]
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Oregon: Albany Council Agenda, April 27, 2022
Brief excerpts from the April 27, 2022, agenda for the City Council Members. FOR: March 30, 2022, Letter from Dan Keteri, CEO, Samaritan Albany General Hospital. “On behalf of Samaritan Albany General Hospital and Samaritan Health Services, I write to express our support of continuing water fluoridation in the City of Albany’s water supply… “According […]
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Oregon: Albany councilor’s push to remove fluoride from drinking water fails
Albany City Hall , Ashley Smith, Mid-Valley Media An Albany City Council member’s push to remove fluoride from the city’s drinking water died without a vote. Councilor Matilda Novak raised the idea in March, leading to a staff report and passionate testimony regarding fluoridation during a council meeting the night of Wednesday, April 27. In […]
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Albany, Oregon. Back to the Sixties: Debating fluoridation
Fifty-four years after an election on fluoridation of the Albany drinking water supply, the issue is back before the city council. Councilwoman Matilda Novak brought it up. On March 21, she said she understood that fluoridation had been approved years ago by ordinance, and now she wanted a new ordinance to reverse that decision. Novak […]
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Corvallis upholds H&V decision that may lead to air emissions discharge permit
Background from 2015 report: “The modified permit allowed Evanite — and later H&V [Hollingsworth & Vose] — to discharge up to 98 tons of nitrogen oxide, 21 tons of carbon monoxide and 2.8 tons of gaseous fluorides each year at the south Corvallis site. “No testing for those emissions was required or performed at the […]
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As kids come back for screenings, dentists seeing more tooth decay
Note from Fluoride Action Network: “When the Covid pandemic hit in the spring of 2020, dental offices were largely shut down, and school screening programs ground to a halt.”Now, almost two years later, Huggins said she’s seeing the consequences in the mouths of her patients. Some children are coming in with teeth that might have […]
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