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The Salt Lake County Council will consider placing the water fluoridation issue on next year’s ballot after three Salt Lake County cities sent letters asking that the controversial issue be revisited. West Jordan, Sandy and Riverton requested a second vote on the matter. Salt Lake County residents approved the fluoridation measure in 2000 by a […]

About 24,000 Salt Lake Valley residents will not get fluoride in their water for at least a year. Or will they? The Salt Lake County Council ruled Tuesday that the Holliday Water Co. and the White City Improvement District could delay adding fluoride until Dec. 31, 2004. But the Salt Lake Valley Health Department says […]

FARMINGTON — Those who think fluoride is a done deal should think again. On Thursday, Davis County commissioners approved a resolution which places the fluoride issue back on the 2004 ballot. Davis County voters approved placing fluoride in the water in the 2000 election, but the issue hasn’t been out of the limelight since, as […]

FARMINGTON — Fluoridated drinking water has floated back onto the ballot in Davis County. The same trio of county commissioners who allowed Davis County residents to vote for fluoride in public water systems in 2000, voted unanimously Tuesday to hold another vote on the matter in 2004. “The job before the commission today is not […]

Another round of fluoride debates may be on tap in Davis County. Today, the Davis County Commission is expected to pass a resolution to put a fluoride question on the 2004 ballot. If approved, residents will vote on the issue four years after they originally agreed to allow the cavity-fighting mineral in their drinking water […]

Riverton residents will not join the rest of the Salt Lake Valley in drinking fluoridated water until the new year under an extension approved Thursday by the Salt Lake Valley Health Department board. The board, however, put off until November the requests made by two small water companies that want to opt out of fluoridation. […]

Salt Lake Valley residents will take their first sips of fluoridated water Wednesday, nearly three years after voters overwhelmingly approved fluoridation. Only three small water systems will not meet the Oct. 1 deadline, which means about 95 percent of the Valley’s homes and businesses will have fluoridated water flowing from the taps, said Royal DeLegge, […]

Most all of the cities in Davis County are fluoridated now, and even the lone hold-out — Layton — is knuckling under and installing fluoridation equipment. But just because the fluoridation order seems to be a done deal, fluoride foes aren’t just sitting back and grumbling about losing the battle. They still believe they can […]

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Since Davis County cities began delivering fluoridated water in April, area plumbing businesses have been busy with calls from residents wanting to get rid of the stuff. Culligan, a national water conditioning company, targeted certain ZIP codes in the county with 5-by-8 inch postal cards in the past week advertising […]

LAYTON — Frustrated over rising costs to fluoridate the city’s drinking water, Layton City leaders will swim against the tide of what has become a controversial public health mandate. Council members at a Thursday work meeting balked at fluoridating the city’s five wells, citing implementation costs they say are four times higher than Davis County […]