While a group of citizens who staged a protest Thursday against South Blount County Utility District’s recent decision to begin water fluoridation had their voices heard, it’s apparently not going to change anything. The utility’s board of directors, at the request of Blount County Mayor Jerry Cunningham, voted Jan. 2 to begin fluoridation of the […]
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The fluoride fight continues
As you heard from us yesterday, the South Blount Utility District is the latest in East Tennessee to approve the addition of fluoride to their water supply. It’s a decision that’s rarely met without at least some opposition. There’s a lot of information out there about the health effects of fluoride exposure. Volunteer TV’s Jessa […]
Blount mayor’s letter strict about adding fluoride to water system
There’s a controversy brewing in Blount County after the mayor there is now pushing for fluoride to be put in the county’s water system. Volunteer TV’s Stephen McLamb has more. One woman with kidney problems is terrified of the prospect that her water supply will be fluoridated. She says when she left a system that […]
Mayor confirms South Blount Utility District will add fluoride
The more than 14,000 South Blount County Utility District customers will soon be receiving something extra in the water supply — fluoride. According to County Mayor Jerry Cunningham, the utility’s Board of Directors reversed its long-standing opposition to fluoridation at its January meeting, voting to begin fluoridating the water treated at its plant. The unexpected […]
Cunningham Utility District stands by decision to not fluoridate water
One soft-spoken battle between a few customers of the Cunningham Utility District in favor of fluoridating the area’s water and the Board of Directors ended Thursday night, but one citizen says the war isn’t over. “I’m going to keep on fighting for it,” said a smiling Nadine St. John, a customer of the district after […]
East Montgomery: Dentists push fluoride, water districts don’t
Michelle Roberts wants her three young children to have fluoride, which she knows can help prevent cavities. For the past 20 months, though, her drinking water has not been fluoridated, and she had no idea. “I have a 2 1/2-year-old and she’s had no fluoride for most of her life,” said Roberts, who lives near […]
County residents unaware their water lacks fluoride
Local dentists and the Montgomery County Health Council recently began working on a campaign to get the word out to residents in the East Montgomery and Cunningham areas on the importance of fluoride, especially for households with growing children. Since February 2006, the East Montgomery Water Treatment Plant has not fluoridated the water that flows […]
Fluoridation award has special significance to Cleveland Utilities
Cleveland Utilities is one of 120 water systems across the state which has been honored with a Water Fluoridation Quality Award by the United States Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The Tennessee Department of Health announced the awards on Friday. Cleveland Mayor Tom Rowland said Saturday the award has additional significance for the […]
Oak Ridge reactor cleanup to resume
OAK RIDGE — The long-delayed cleanup work at the Molten Salt Reactor will resume in September, a Department of Energy spokesman said Friday. Virtually no work has been done at the old reactor for the past year and a half because of persistent problems, including a fluorine leak in May 2006 and subsequent allegations that […]
Water districts cautioned against fluoride
Is utility-supplied water in Dayton and Rhea County tainted with a harmful chemical that is damaging residents’ teeth and internal organs? According to a practicing physician serving in the Tennessee legislature, all fluoridated drinking water, which includes water provided by some utilities in Dayton and Rhea County, is harmful to humans, especially infants and young […]