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Centerville digs heels against fluoride
CENTERVILLE — Despite two votes to the contrary, one countywide, the other for Centerville city, officials have decided to temporarily delay fluoridating the city’s water. At Tuesday’s city council meeting the purchase of about $500,000 to $700,000 worth of fluoridation equipment was put off. The council will address the purchase question at its next meeting, […]
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Fluoride foes offer more names in bid for new Davis County Vote
Fluoridated water has been flowing to southern Davis County for barely a month and already opponents are saying they have enough petition signatures to force a public vote — the second in two years — on the issue. They turned in 2,000 additional names this week. If the county certifies those lists, opponents will have […]
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Tacoma/Pierce County will study effect of fluoride on salmon
The Tacoma/Pierce County Health Department will study the environmental impacts of fluoride – including its effect on salmon – before continuing with plans to mandate water fluoridation. The Board of Health made the decision Wednesday after meeting in executive session to discuss the possibility of lawsuits from fluoride opponents. No other community in Washington – […]
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Dublin fluoridation system shut down
DUBLIN — The system that pumps fluoride into Dublin drinking water has been shut down pending the results of an investigation into an incident that left 23 people sick Tuesday. Officials at Dublin San Ramon Services District found over-fluoridated water at Zeiss Humphrey Systems Inc. in eastern Dublin, where four employees sought medical treatment after […]
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Fluorosis playing havoc in Kolar
KOLAR: Barely 70 km from the hi-tech city of Bangalore lies Kolar where more than 80 per cent of the children in the age-group of 6-14 suffer from skeletal and severe dental fluorosis. Reason: The water they consume has excess fluoride which has weakened their hands and legs. Worse, in Kolar, all villages depend on […]
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Mercury Report Names Dentists as Major Polluters
The common dentist office practice of flushing old mercury-containing fillings down the drain makes dentists the single largest discharger of the toxic metal into the nation’s wastewater treatment plants, according to a national study by a Boston-based public health group. Most of the mercury is eventually discharged into bodies of water. In a time that […]
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Fluoride debate rages on in Davis County
Davis County residents will revote this November on whether to fluoridate public water supplies. Davis County elections clerk Pat Beckstead said Wednesday that backers of a local initiative had gathered the necessary number of signatures to return the issue to the ballot. A revote shouldn’t affect fluoridation plans leading up to the November election. As […]
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Judge: No fluoride in Woods Cross water
WOODS CROSS — Much to the chagrin of the Davis County Health Department, a judge’s ruling Tuesday confirms that Woods Cross has a “functionally separate” water system, allowing the city to prevent fluoridated drinking water to flow into the city. Judge Glen R. Dawson, of Bountiful’s 2nd District Court ruled that since Woods Cross had […]
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Woods Cross gets court approval to be fluoride-free
BOUNTIFUL – Woods Cross residents needn’t toss out those fluoride tablets. Their water will remain free from the element for the foreseeable future. In a somewhat surprising ruling Tuesday, 2nd District Court Judge Glen Dawson said Woods Cross could operate its water system without tapping a countywide system – known as the Weber Basin Water […]
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Lakewood water users will vote on fluoridation
Lakewood water users will decide in a fall election whether to comply with the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department’s fluoridation mandate. The Lakewood Water District board of commissioners agreed to allow its Lakewood customers to vote on whether to add fluoride to their water. Many health experts say the additive prevents tooth decay. The district will […]
United States, Washington State