The Rugby City Council took another step in eliminating fluoride from the city’s water treatment process. In a regular meeting Monday evening, the council approved the first reading of Ordinance No. 408, which, if passed, would repeal Ordinance No. 84. Passed on Nov. 17, 1958, Ordinance No. 84 ordained that the city’s water supply would […]
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Jack Crowther: As systemic poison, fluoride is an elusive target
Editor’s note: This commentary is by Jack Crowther, of Rutland, who is retired. He worked as a journalist and in corporate communications. It is ironic that because fluoride is a “systemic” poison, affecting the body generally rather than in one specific way, the fight against community water fluoridation is made harder. This seems contradictory. Why […]
Fluoride expert willing to help Potsdam with issue
To the Editor: I am very pleased to hear that Potsdam is considering the possibility of ending water fluoridation. I have studied this issue for over 21 years and was very happy to be part of a team of people that persuaded the Canton Village Board of Trustees to end this practice in February 2003. […]
Sandusky: 50 years ago, 1967
Sandusky’s water supply will be fluoridated. Over the objection of City Commission Harold Schaeffer, the municipal legislators forced through an emergency ordinance authorizing the introduction of fluorine to the city water system. Schaeffer, the lone dissenter, told the commission, “this affects every citizen in Sandusky. I think it should appear on the ballot.” *Original article, […]
PFOA: Grand jury investigating DEQ, Chemours amid GenX concerns in the Cape Fear
RALEIGH — A federal investigation is underway into the Department of Environmental Quality and the release of the chemical GenX into the Cape Fear River from the Chemours plant in eastern N.C. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina issued a criminal subpoena to N.C. DEQ requiring permits, emails, notes, compliance […]
Trans Circuits, Inc. – Superfund site in Palm Beach County
Excerpt from the article “NEW: Will EPA funding debate affect contaminated PBC site?”: The only Superfund site in Palm Beach County currently on the National Priorities List is the former Trans Circuits, Inc., 210 Newman Road, Lake Park. From 1978 to 1985, Trans Circuits operated as an electroplating and manufacturing plant. Wastewater containing copper, tin, […]
Plattsburgh: Town gets grant for water project
The Town of Plattsburgh is getting another chunk of money toward its multi-million-dollar water project. A $500,000 award for Plattsburgh from the Northern Border Regional Commission — along with other grants for St. Lawrence County and Ogdensburg — will “go a long way toward improving our North Country infrastructure,” Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-Willsboro) said Friday. WELLS, TREATMENT In […]
Selbyville water report shows no violations, but high numbers
Excerpt: The water’s Ph was slightly alkaline, measuring 8.4 out of a maximum 8.5. Hardness was ranked at 12 parts per million. Sodium measured at 64.2 ppm, and alkalinity was 85.2 ppm. Fluoride averaged 1.2 ppm out of 2.0 ppm. The Annual Drinking Water Quality Report for 2016 is available online at www.selbyville.delaware.gov/water-department and www.DelawareSourceWater.org. […]
Corvallis: H&V seeks greenway permit
A local manufacturer that wants to upgrade its pollution control equipment will have to wait at least two more weeks for a decision. The Corvallis Planning Commission continued a hearing on a request by Hollingsworth & Vose for a Willamette River Greenway conditional development permit for its glass fiber plant at 1115 SE Crystal Lake […]
PFOA: US prosecutors seek records of unregulated chemical in river
Federal prosecutors have demanded documents, research and monitoring data from a state agency as they investigate a Fortune 500 company’s release of a little-studied chemical into a river that supplies drinking water to hundreds of thousands of people, officials said Thursday. The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality received a subpoena last week from U.S. […]