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Port Angeles fluoride hearing heats up
PORT ANGELES — The second day of city water fluoridation hearings brought heated exchanges as debate continued toward 11 p.m. Thursday. Breaking from planned 10 p.m. adjournment, both sides completed their three-hour presentations about 9:40 p.m. Following a 30-minute break to prepare documents, City Council questions and closing arguments were expected to run until at […]
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PUD letter will oppose Port Angeles water fluoridation
PORT ANGELES — Clallam County Public Utility District No. 1 commissioners agreed Monday to write a letter opposing planned fluoridation of the city water supply. The letter will be given to fluoridation opponents, who will present it to the City Council during a public hearing set July 28-29 at 6-9 p.m. both nights in the […]
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Sumner to talk about fluoride
The Sumner City Council will hold a public hearing next month and decide within 60 days of it whether to continue putting fluoride in the city’s drinking water. The majority of the council is leaning toward discontinuing the service, which started in March under a now-defunct mandate by the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department. The state […]
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Fluoride mandate loses in court
The Washington State Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Board overstepped its authority when it mandated that local water providers add fluoride to drinking water. The ruling reversed a February 2003 decision by the Pierce County Superior Court that had upheld the board’s broad power to regulate and supervise public health. The […]
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Court rules fluoridation can’t be ordered
The Tacoma-Pierce County Board of Health doesn’t have the authority to order water systems in the county to fluoridate their water, the state Supreme Court ruled yesterday. Individual water districts are empowered by state law to decide whether to include the dental-cavity-preventing chemical in their water supplies, the justices said in the 6-3 decision. The […]
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Opponents grit teeth for fluoridation fight
Anti-fluoridation activist Betty Fowler hasn’t missed a Spokane Regional Board of Health meeting in seven years. Each month, she sits in the audience and waits for the end of the meeting when she speaks briefly against adding fluoride to public water systems. Next Thursday, her pet issue will be on the official agenda. Fluoridation is […]
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A letter from a dentist
As a dentist who works in Pierce County, I must take exception to the viewpoint article (TNT, 3-11) by Dr. Rhonda Savage that water fluoridation is good for all and without controversy. I oppose water fluoridation. I am very concerned about the welfare and health of my patients. I care deeply about the children and […]
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Sammamish water district votes to fluoridate
SAMMAMISH — Despite the gnashing of teeth by fluoride opponents, the tooth-decay-fighting compound will be added to this community’s well water sometime next year now that Sammamish Plateau Water and Sewer District commissioners have given the go-ahead. They had little choice, the district’s manager, Ron Little, said yesterday. The water-thin Sammamish district has become a […]
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Sultan to open fluoride spigot
SULTAN — The city will begin fluoridating its drinking water next month as it taps into Everett’s drinking-water supply. Sultan expects its growth will eventually exceed the amount of water that its own system can provide. During maximum summer usage, city businesses and residents use about 1.2 million gallons a day, all the city’s water […]
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Court weighs fluoridation suit
From police power to tooth decay, Washington State Supreme Court justices pressed lawyers with questions Thursday as they waded into a debate over fluoridated water in Pierce County. At the center of the dispute is an order by the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Board, which demands that 14 local water purveyors put fluoride in water to […]
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