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New Hanover County: Water ban lifted, but questions and boil water advisory remain
Thousands of New Hanover residents woke up Wednesday not able to drink their water NEW HANOVER COUNTY — An advisory to boil water in parts of northern New Hanover County was scheduled to remain in effect Thursday for residents who had been warned Wednesday not to drink water after elevated levels of fluoride were detected. […]
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New Hanover County: CFPUA temporarily stops adding fluoride to water at treatment plant
WILMINGTON, NC (WECT) – Fluoride will no longer be added to drinking water treated at the Richardson Nano Groundwater Treatment Plant in New Hanover County until an investigation into why levels of the chemical spiked on Wednesday is complete. According to CFPUA officials, a “do not drink” alert was issued after crews discovered fluoride levels at […]
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New Hanover County. Update: State says fluoride double federal limit in water. CFPUA can’t explain why
Though the “do not drink” advisory has been lifted, CFPUA is unable to answer questions about why or how an “abundance of fluoride” was detected in the public water supply in New Hanover County north of Wilmington. Areas colored teal were included in CFPUA’s initial advisory notice. (Port City Daily photo /COURTESY CFPUA) NEW HANOVER […]
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‘Do not drink the water’ alert issued for New Hanover County by CFPUA
NEW HANOVER COUNTY — Residents in northern New Hanover County may be at risk of fluoride poisoning and are being told not to drink or cook with tap water by the Cape Fear Public Utility Authority. According to robocalls made to residents in the northern part of the county, water from the CFPUA’s Richardson Nano […]
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New Hanover County: CFPUA lifts ‘do not drink’ alert, issues boil advisory for some customers
WILMINGTON, NC (WECT) – Officials with the Cape Fear Public Utility Authority have lifted a do not drink alert for customers who get their water from the Richardson Nano Groundwater Treatment Plant in northern New Hanover County. The utility has now issued a boil advisory for some of the affected customers. All of North Chase, Murrayville, […]
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Chapel Hill: OWASA Resumes Fluoridating Drinking Water
Orange Water and Sewer Authority restarted the process of fluoridating drinking water for the service area across Chapel Hill and Carrboro on Monday. OWASA stopped fluoridating the water in February when a keystroke error from an operator caused a fluoride overfeed. A Do Not Use order was then issued for the approximately 80,000 residents who […]
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Eight months after accident, OWASA to resume use of fluoride in water supply
CHAPEL HILL – The Orange Water and Sewer Authority will resume fluoridating drinking water Monday, Oct. 9, for Carrboro and Chapel Hill, almost eight months after equipment malfunction and human error resulted in an overfeed of fluoride at the Jones Ferry Road Water Treatment Plant in February. OWASA temporarily ceased fluoridation Feb. 2 after the […]
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Chapel Hill: OWASA Will Soon Reintroduce Fluoride Into Its Water Supply. Critics Say the Authority Is Unethicall
Curtis Williams slowly steps up close to the microphone. Standing in front of the board of commissioners for Orange County’s water authority, he’s holding a faded red dictionary and a poster board on which he’s drawn the cell structure of fluorine. Any dictionary, he says, will tell you what you need to know about the […]
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Fluoride opponents in Chapel Hill, Carrboro take fight to elected leaders
Carrboro and Chapel Hill’s water supply has not been fluoridated since February, when equipment malfunction and human error resulted in an overfeed of fluoride at the Orange Water and Sewer Authority’s Jones Ferry Road Water Treatment Plant. Ted S. Warren AP CARRBORO – Anti-fluoride activists who felt brushed aside when OWASA canceled a public meeting […]
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Chapel Hill. Letter: Be wary of OWASA’s cancelled meetings
TO THE EDITOR: I am writing to urge you to cover the ongoing controversy about water fluoridation in Chapel HiIl via OWASA. Why haven’t they had a public meeting allowing comments since May 25?!? They’ve cancelled the June, July and now August meetings, and the next public meeting isn’t scheduled until Sept. 28. This is […]
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