The Town of Wilkesboro has stopped and won’t resume adding fluoride to water when it’s treated at the town’s water treatment plant, announced Town Manager Ken Noland. Noland informed the Wilkesboro Council of this decision during a council work session Monday night before the regular council meeting. Noland made the decision with input from staff […]
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Wilkesboro: Hold hearing, vote on fluoridation
Wilkesboro Council members fell short of their responsibilities as elected officials by not being more involved and by not involving the public in the decision to no longer fluoridate water at the town’s water treatment plant. Fluoridation is becoming increasingly divisive in communities all over the nation and world, making the way the Wilkesboro Council […]
Clallam County. LETTER: Hospital commissioner’s presumption of judgement invalidates his argument
In talking about Commissioner Mike Chapman, Jim Leskinovitch abdicates his duty to reserve bias. Olympic Medical Center Hospital Commissioner Jim Leskinovitch in an Aug. 25 letter to the editor [“Against Chapman”] attacked the candidacy of Clallam County Commissioner Mike Chapman, complaining: “As a member of the county Board of Health, his duty is to support […]
Simplot plant, DEQ agreement will cut pollution
POCATELLO — Air and water quality near the J.R. Simplot Don Plant will continue to improve at an accelerated pace thanks to a new agreement between the company and the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality. A new agreement between Simplot and the DEQ signed this summer will reduce fluoride and particulate emissions by more than […]
Shrewsbury: Environmentalist continues fight against fluoride in water
SHREWSBURY – A local environmentalist who unsuccessfully tried to persuade the town to stop putting fluoride, the cavity-fighting naturally occurring chemical, in drinking water went before selectmen Tuesday night to explain his latest attempt. Town meeting in October 2015 soundly defeated an article petitioned by Bryan R. Moss, of 16 Ruthen Circle, that would have […]
AG files felony reckless endangerment, illegal dumping charges against Tacoma truck wash
Worker fell into basin of acid, hazardous materials discharged into street, sewer TACOMA — Attorney General Bob Ferguson today filed criminal charges against a Tacoma man and his company accused of discharging hazardous substances into the street and sewer near his industrial truck wash, and allowing an employee to fall into a basin of dangerous […]
Cleveland: Contracts for improvement at Water Treatment Plant
Bid Date & Time: 9/20/16, 10:00 AM Prebid: 9/14/16, 10:00 AM Prebid Mandatory: Yes Solicitation Title: Contract 1-Fluoride Improvements at Cleveland Utilities Filter Plant and Contract 2-Fluoride and Building Improvements at WTP Status: bidding Report: 7265996 Country: United States State: TN Location: Cleveland Scope: Contract 1 includes the conversion from dry to liquid fluoride including […]
Fluoride face-off in Cortland
Experts dueled about the chemical’s merit CORTLAND – The pro-fluoride guy drank water from a gallon jug. It was fluoridated to 0.7 parts per million. The anti-fluoride guy drank spring water from West Seneca. It has naturally occurring fluoride at 0.22 parts per million. About the only thing they agreed on was that water is […]
Lawsuit: Gallatin’s use of fluoride in water ‘forced medication’
A Gallatin man claims city officials are forcefully medicating him by allowing the use of flouride in drinking water. Patrick Reeners made the claim in a lawsuit filed July 21 against the Gallatin City Council and the superintendent of the city’s water department. The suit was filed with the U. S. Court for the Middle Tennessee District. […]
Should Duxbury continue to add fluoride to its drinking water?
YES Dr. Andrew Wiemeyer Duxbury resident, local dentist Fluoridation of community water supplies has been proclaimed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as one of 10 great public health achievements of the 20th century. According to the best available scientific evidence, fluoridation is safe, effective, and economical in preventing tooth decay. Today, three […]