MARYVILLE – The Internet has become the newest battleground in the controversy over the South Blount County Utility District’s decision to remove fluoride from the water the organization provides its 13,000 customers. Mike Biddle, who runs his own Web hosting and site design service, entered the fray during the weekend, bringing online a site dedicated […]
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The Fluoride Debate Hits the Web
To add or not to add that’s the question in one East Tennessee community, as the debate concerning whether or not fluoride should be in the water continues. The South Blount County Utility District used to buy its water from other districts which added fluoride. But it decided to leave fluoride out when it started […]
Customers’ input sought for South Blount utility meeting
MARYVILLE – Officials of Blount County’s Community Health Initiative are calling on customers served by the South Blount County Utility District to express their views about the district’s decision to eliminate fluoride from the water it delivers. Laura Harrill, director of community outreach for Blount Memorial Hospital and facilitator of the health initiative, said the […]
Health at heart of fluoride dispute
MARYVILLE – It was Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes who coined the term “clear and present danger” in an opinion he delivered on freedom of speech in the early part of the last century. But nowadays, when some Blount County folks speak about their water supply, the term comes up again in a modified […]
Blount County utility won’t add fluoride to water
MARYVILLE, Tenn. The South Blount (BLUHNT) County Utility District has decided to not add fluoride to the water processed at its new treatment plant. A wide array of public health organizations, including the American Dental Association, supports fluoridating water supplies to help prevent tooth decay. Utility district manager Isom Lail and treatment plant manager Henry […]
South Blount opens plant – Board has no plans for fluoridation
South Blount Utility District opened its new water treatment plant to the public in a Friday ceremony marking completion of the $20 million project. Located on Calderwood Highway, the facility cleans water using membrane filtration technology, making South Blount the first utility in East Tennessee to implement the method for a public water supply. Henry […]
South Blount Utility Board Opts Against Fluoridation
Note from FAN on this article: For whatever the reasons, the South Blount Utility District have not stopped fluoridation. South Blount Utility District officials are drawing criticism for choosing not to fluoridate water at the district’s new treatment plant, scheduled to go online in August. Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation officials said fluoridation isn’t […]
Ending the MSRE. A fabled reactor experiment’s cleanup project may be its crowning glory
It’s the final and somewhat ironic chapter of one of ORNL’s [Oak Ridge National Laboratory] largest and most storied projects. A successful but spurned and dormant experimental nuclear reactor is ending its days as a cleanup project. The Molten Salt Reactor Experiment’s fate is far from ignoble, however. The MSRE continues to teach, even in […]