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Health Share of Oregon Supports Fluoridation for Portland
The Health Share of Oregon Board of Directors has added its support to the effort by the Everyone Deserves Healthy Teeth Coalition to encourage Portland to add fluoride to the city’s drinking water supply. “Getting an early start on oral health can help a child start down the right path for overall health for a […]
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Portland: Photos From the Anti-Fluoridation Rally on 8/21
Rally organizer Angel Lambart is interviewed by KOIN channel 6 reporter Ken Bodie. Several attendees of the rally discussed fluoride and its effects on children, especially babies. A giant poster was created to display to cars passing. Fluorides effect on local brewers was a concern. Protesters went to great lengths […]
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Editorial: Fluoridate Portland’s water
Drinking-water fluoridation, which doesn’t happen in Portland, deserves to be about as controversial as water chlorination, which does. Like chlorination, fluoridation prevents illness through the use of a substance you wouldn’t want to chug, and it occurs safely throughout the country. About 74 percent of Americans on community systems get fluoridated water. And even in […]
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Fluoride hearing set for Portland City Council on Sept. 6, vote Sept. 12
With approval all but certain, Randy Leonard’s proposal to fluoridate drinking water will head to the Portland City Council for a public hearing Sept. 6 and a vote Sept. 12. Already, Mayor Sam Adams has joined Commissioners Leonard and Nick Fish in announcing support. Leonard’s controversial proposal has prompted mounting opposition, however, with an electronic […]
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Portland mayor supports fluoridation
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland Mayor Sam Adams responded with pride after receiving a compliment on his teeth Friday: “These teeth grew up on fluoride — Newport, Oregon, fluoride.” The city he governs could soon join the list of places that add the mineral to its water supply to fight tooth decay. Adams announced he […]
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Portland: Sam Adams Tweets He’ll Vote for Fluoride
Mayor Sam Adams announced on Twitter this afternoon that he’ll vote to fluoridate Portland’s water supply. That makes three votes on City Council for Commissioner Randy Leonard’s surprise plan to add fluoride to city water, a process Portland has resisted for more than half a century. “Please vote yes to fluoridate #PDX water,” Portland resident […]
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Fluoride group secures second vote on Portland City Council for $5 million project
Fluoride proponents picked up a significant endorsement Thursday, increasing the likelihood that Portland will end its status as the largest city in the country that hasn’t taken steps to fluoridate its water. With Commissioner Nick Fish joining Randy Leonard in support, fluoridation will now only stall if each of the remaining three Portland City Council […]
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Portland: Fish supports fluoridation
A second city commissioner has said he will vote to fluoridate Portland’s water before the first hearing has been held on the issue. A coalition of health providers, minority organizations and social service agencies is lobbying the council to add flouride to the city’s water to reduce cavities. Commissioner Randy Leonard, who oversees the Portland […]
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Portland Water Bureau: “any fluoridation project would have to use liquid, or fluorosilicic acid”
This was an attachment to an August 16, 2012, article in The Oregonian, titled Fluoride would cost $5 million and take 5-plus years: Portland City Hall roundup Subject: Upstream Public Health Questions Regarding Fluoride Costs PWB prepared capital and O&M costs for a fluoride system. The PWB provided this cost information to Mr. Rader on […]
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Portland: Fluoride would cost $5 million and take 5-plus years
If the Portland City Council decides to add fluoride to local drinking water, it should prepare for three things: sizable costs, big-time opposition, followed by a half-decade wait. Putting fluoride in Portland, Gresham, Tigard and Tualatin’s water supply would require “significant” project costs of about $5 million and ongoing operations and maintenance expenses of $575,000, […]
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