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Every year in Traverse City, commissioners budget almost $30,000 to keep adding fluoride to the water supply. That usually passes with little fanfare. But this year it’s up for extra debate, and a group in town is raising some fierce opposition. Health officials say it’s safe and effective Officials at the Grand Traverse County Health […]

GRAND TRAVERSE CO. — Local dentists, doctors and health officials are urging the Traverse City Commission to continue to fluoridate the city’s water. Health officials made the statement Friday morning in reaction to a small group of people who are asking the city to remove funding for the city fluoridation program from the new budget. […]

BOYNE CITY — Attorneys for Boyne City have found that a split vote by the city commission last month to discontinue fluoridating the city’s municipal water supply was a legal action. At its last meeting on May 27, the Boyne City City Commission voted unanimously to get an opinion from its attorneys about the legality […]

In an effort to quell questions about its recent split decision to discontinue fluoridating the city’s water supply, the Boyne City City Commission will seek an opinion from its attorney on the legality of the action. … Almost immediately after the decision was made, questions began to surface from some members of the community about […]

The Boyne City Commission voted 3-2 on Tuesday May 13 to stop adding fluoride to Boyne City’s municipal water supply. The commission made the decision following an hour-and-a-half of discussion that included taking comments from laymen, doctors and public health officials… To read the full report a subscription is necessary.

After more than an hour of discussion — some of it very impassioned — Tuesday, the Boyne City City Commission voted 3-2 to discontinue adding fluoride to the city’s water supply. Health concerns are what drove both sides of the debate. … City water/wastewater superintendent Dan Meads …  said the records on exactly when and […]

2011 incident caused $23M in damage Before the Wise Road Water Plant filled with a toxic yellow cloud, before employees risked their health obeying conflicting orders, and hours ahead of the evacuation of a south Lansing neighborhood, a gauge on a chemical tank provided the first sign of trouble. On the July 2011 morning when […]

Even three years later, almost any review of the July 2011 accident at the Board of Water & Light’s Wise Road Water Plant leads to the same question BWL investigators pursued in the accident’s immediate aftermath. How did a load of bleach end up being pumped into a fluoride tank, creating a corrosive cloud that […]

… the issue of fluoridated water recently arose during a Boyne City Commission meeting when one public official suggested immediately discontinuing the city’s practice of adding the chemical to its municipal water supply… During the Boyne City Gazette’s investigation of the matter, it was discovered that Charlevoix County’s 13 municipal and private water systems range […]