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Officials probing cause of Orange County water crisis
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (WNCN) — Officials are investigating how last week’s water crisis in Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Orange County came to be. Orange Water and Sewer Authority officials say that the system that automatically adds fluoride to the area’s water somehow failed. The fluoride is usually added to prevent tooth decay. But Thursday morning, […]
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Pipe break, fluoride excess leaves water shelves empty in town
The issues began Thursday afternoon when there was an accidental overfeed of fluoride within the water treatment process at OWASA’s Jones Ferry Road water treatment plant. OWASA began receiving water from the city of Durham late Thursday afternoon, but the water flow was not high enough to fill water storage tanks to normal levels, resulting […]
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Chapel Hill, Carrboro declare state of emergency over water shortage
CARRBORO – Orange Sewer and Water Authority customers in the Carrboro-Chapel Hill community are being asked to not use water due to a water main break and low tank levels, officials said Friday. Orange County officials said a rupture in a 12-inch water main near Dobbins Drive in Chapel Hill Friday morning is exacerbating the […]
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OWASA getting water from Durham after fluoride overfeed
The Orange Water and Sewer Authority began receiving drinking water from the City of Durham late Thursday afternoon after an accidental overfeed of fluoride within the water treatment process, the utility announced. The overfeed of fluoride was contained within the Jones Ferry Road Water Treatment Plant, according to a news release. No water with higher […]
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Wilkesboro: Council approves fluoride’s return
After hearing from both sides of the issue Monday night, the Wilkesboro Town Council voted unanimously to immediately start putting fluoride back in the town’s water supply. After 15 months without fluoride, Town Manager Ken Noland said last month in a town council work session that the town wasn’t going to return fluoride to the […]
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Wilkesboro: Fluoride up for a vote on Monday
Restoration of fluoride to water when it is treated at the Wilkesboro Water Treatment Plant is on the agenda for the Wilkesboro Town Council meeting Monday night. Wilkesboro Town Manager Ken Noland said the council is expected to vote then on whether fluoride should again be added to water when it is treated at the […]
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Wilkesboro not adding fluoride
The Town of Wilkesboro has stopped and won’t resume adding fluoride to water when it’s treated at the town’s water treatment plant, announced Town Manager Ken Noland. Noland informed the Wilkesboro Council of this decision during a council work session Monday night before the regular council meeting. Noland made the decision with input from staff […]
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Wilkesboro: Hold hearing, vote on fluoridation
Wilkesboro Council members fell short of their responsibilities as elected officials by not being more involved and by not involving the public in the decision to no longer fluoridate water at the town’s water treatment plant. Fluoridation is becoming increasingly divisive in communities all over the nation and world, making the way the Wilkesboro Council […]
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Wilmington. Back Then: Fluoride in the water? Council wavers in 1956
From the StarNews archives. 60 years ago July 25, 1956: People were more reserved in the 1950s, so it’s no surprise that there were no gloom-and-doom comments from local leaders. But it’s hard to imagine they were not reeling over the news from December of 1955 that the Atlantic Coast Line railroad was moving its […]
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Fluoridation (Re)education
The lady is pissed. “Somebody has to point out that the fluoridation emperor has no clothes,” she says. She’s taken this job on herself. But I’m ahead of myself… The 2008 Material Safety Data Sheet for HYDROFLUOROSILICIC ACID states: “EMERGENCY OVERVIEW: DANGER! CORROSIVE. Causes severe burns to eyes, skin, and respiratory tract. Harmful if inhaled. […]
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