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Salt Lake County’s Mandatory Fluoridation Begins
Riverton residents will not join the rest of the Salt Lake Valley in drinking fluoridated water until the new year under an extension approved Thursday by the Salt Lake Valley Health Department board. The board, however, put off until November the requests made by two small water companies that want to opt out of fluoridation. […]
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Fluoride to begin its flow in SLC this week
Salt Lake Valley residents will take their first sips of fluoridated water Wednesday, nearly three years after voters overwhelmingly approved fluoridation. Only three small water systems will not meet the Oct. 1 deadline, which means about 95 percent of the Valley’s homes and businesses will have fluoridated water flowing from the taps, said Royal DeLegge, […]
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Conflict over fluoridation far from over
Most all of the cities in Davis County are fluoridated now, and even the lone hold-out — Layton — is knuckling under and installing fluoridation equipment. But just because the fluoridation order seems to be a done deal, fluoride foes aren’t just sitting back and grumbling about losing the battle. They still believe they can […]
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Some Davis County Residents Defluoridating Water
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Since Davis County cities began delivering fluoridated water in April, area plumbing businesses have been busy with calls from residents wanting to get rid of the stuff. Culligan, a national water conditioning company, targeted certain ZIP codes in the county with 5-by-8 inch postal cards in the past week advertising […]
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Layton Utah resists fluoride mandate
LAYTON — Frustrated over rising costs to fluoridate the city’s drinking water, Layton City leaders will swim against the tide of what has become a controversial public health mandate. Council members at a Thursday work meeting balked at fluoridating the city’s five wells, citing implementation costs they say are four times higher than Davis County […]
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Health Board Practices Dubious
LAYTON — Bill Luce, who as a member of the Davis County Board of Health pushed for water fluoridation, is co-owner of a company now designing fluoridation systems for cities and water companies along the Wasatch Front. That bothers fluoridation opponents, who have been writing letters and e-mails to elected leaders and newspapers, grumbling about […]
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Layton Officials Furious Over Fluoride Costs
LAYTON — Fluoridating Davis County’s water will cost at least twice as much as voters were told when they approved fluoridation in 2000. And that prospect has elected leaders of one city — Layton — livid. In a scathing letter to the Davis County Commission and Health Department last week, Mayor Jerry Stevenson accused former […]
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No Fluoride in Holladay’s Water?
Fluoridated water may not flow to thousands of taps on Salt Lake County’s east side this fall — unlike the rest of the valley. Holladay Water Co. does not plan to include the additive to its supplies despite a countywide vote in 2000 approving fluoridation of all public drinking water. The company serves about 15,000 […]
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Fluoride confrontation bubbling up in Davis County
LAYTON – A standoff may be brewing between the City of Layton and the Davis County Health Department. With the chances that an election on fluoride could be held next year, Layton City Manager Alex Jensen said he is leery to spend up to $900,000 to build new facilities and retrofit existing pump houses and […]
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Fluoride vote gets new life in Utah
A bill that would give fluoride opponents yet another opportunity to remove the treatment from their water systems passed the House on Friday. After lawmakers amended HB64 to allow citizen-driven initiatives for either the removal or addition of fluoride to be placed on any general election ballot, the measure passed on a 63-10 vote. Before […]
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