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The Ozark Mountain Regional Public Water Authority board is set to meet Thursday night in Valley Springs and chairman Andy Anderson hopes more members show up and contribute toward the appeal of the authority’s fluoridation lawsuit. Act 197 of 2011 required all water systems serving 5,000 people or more to add fluoride to drinking water. […]

The Ozark Mountain Regional Public Water Authority, the sole holdout in the state still refusing to fluoridate its drinking water, plans to appeal a March 7 Circuit Court ruling that OMRPWA cannot refuse to fluoridate based on being a wholesale water supplier with 18 towns, none of which has 5,000 customers. The Arkansas Department of […]

VALLEY SPRINGS, Ark. — The Ozark Mountain Regional Public Water Authority believes adding fluoride to the system would be harmful to the environment, and believes it’s also harmful to people. But in a state law it says fluoride prevents tooth decay and improves oral health. An Arkansas law passed in 2011 says water systems in […]

VALLEY SPRINGS — The Ozark Mountain Regional Public Water Authority board met Thursday night at Valley Springs City Hall and voted to appeal a recent court decision that it must fluoridate water. But that move was designed to buy some time so water customers might be able to protest the law requiring fluoridation while the […]

A judge has ruled against the Ozark Mountain Regional Public Water Authority’s argument against fluoridation, but it’s now up to the authority’s board to decide if an appeal is forthcoming. The authority had appealed the Arkansas Department of Health’s mandate that the authority had to follow the provisions of Arkansas Act 197 of 2011, which […]

A judge has ruled against the Ozark Mountain Regional Public Water Authority’s argument against fluoridation, but it’s now up to the authority’s board to decide if an appeal is forthcoming. The authority had appealed the Arkansas Department of Health’s mandate that the authority had to follow the provisions of Arkansas Act 197 of 2011, which […]

BOONE COUNTY, Ar. — An Arkansas water authority is ready to fight a circuit court ruling that says they must add fluoride to their drinking water. The Ozark Mountain Public Regional Water Authority, near Lead Hill, filed the appeal against the Arkansas Department of Health, but a judge ruled against the appeal on Tuesday. Under […]

The Ozark Mountain Public Water Authority is still waiting to see if it has to fluoridate water after a hearing last week before 14th Judicial Circuit Judge Andrew Bailey. Arkansas Act 197 of 2011 requires all water systems with more than 5,000 customers to fluoridate water. In 2015, the water authority appealed the state Health […]

VALLEY SPRINGS — At a recent meeting of the Ozark Mountain Regional Public Water Authority board, board chairman Andy Anderson encouraged as many customers and board members as possible to attend a hear this coming Thursday regarding the mandate to fluoridate the system’s drinking water. Arkansas Act 197 of 2011 requires all water systems with […]

As accumulating health studies and litigation come nearer to forcing the U.S. EPA to ban, nation-wide, the deliberate addition of fluoride into public water supplies, we, as Arkansans, should inform ourselves regarding the current science on ingested fluoride as well as Arkansas’ law mandating the practice. The CDC and ADA classify ingested fluoride as ‘safe […]