PLANT CITY — The city has agreed to fluoridate the municipal water supply to aid the community’s dental health. The city is receiving $386,000 in grants from the Florida Department of Health and county health department to pay for the fluoridation equipment and other costs. The city expects to have the fluoridation system in operation […]
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Piney Point: Water leaking from mound of radioactive waste near Port Manatee
Regulators say the leak from the former Piney Point phosphate plant can be fixed Millions of gallons of potentially contaminated water are being released into Tampa Bay in an effort to prevent the catastrophic collapse of a reservoir at the former Piney Point phosphate plant. The water — mixed with sand and likely filled with […]
Conflict of interest discovered for Army Corps of Engineers’ phosphate mining environmental impact contractor
The Ecology Party of Florida has discovered a direct conflict of interest with CH2M Hill, the engineering firm awarded the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Army Corps) contract for preparing the Areawide Environmental Impact Statement (AEIS) on phosphate mining. The AEIS is supposed to determine all of the direct, indirect and cumulative impacts of phosphate […]
Cities set fluoride to new standard
Chances are that even the Tooth Fairy who shows up annually at Riviera Elementary can’t tell the difference, but there’s a little less fluoride flowing in local water these days. Several Brevard cities — including Palm Bay, Cocoa, Melbourne and Titusville — are among those whose water supplies now mirror recently released federal guidelines calling […]
Newberry: No fluoride in Newberry’s water
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), tooth decay is the leading and most preventable childhood disease. It deemed water fluoridation “one of the 10 great public health achievements of the 20th century” for its role in preventing tooth decay. However, Newberry is not among the majority of communities in Florida that […]
Pensacola: Fluoride fight again comes to ECUA races
Emerald Coast Utilities Authority members Lois Benson and Dale Perkins, both Republicans who favor keeping fluoride in the water, defeated primary challengers the who wanted to remove the chemical. Now fluoride’s back on the campaign trail. Engineer Dave Carlson is challenging Benson in the District 2 race. Homebuilder Scott Schroeder is running against Perkins in […]
Milton resident: No more flouride
The City of Milton has heard a plea to stop adding fluoride to its drinking water. On Monday, Aug. 27, Dawn Chase of Okaloosa St., in Milton, addressed the city council about her concerns over the city adding fluoride to its drinking water. Fluoride is both an organic and inorganic compound that range from potent […]
Is lack of fluoride hurting kids?
Editor’s note: This is the third of a three-part series looking at the state’s record for providing dental treatment to children, particularly those in impoverished areas who lack access to dentists and fluoridated water. Today’s story looks at the arguments for and against the fluoridation of our drinking water. At 8:10 every Tuesday morning during […]
Fla.’s Kids in Need Have Little Access To Dentists
With blond hair, blue eyes and a bright smile, Taylor Neely, 4, squirmed and giggled as she waited for a light sedative to make her relax before University of Florida pediatric dentist Dr. Michael Tarver put two crowns on her back teeth. “I don’t feel it,” said Taylor, who in the past seven months has […]
Escambia County: Editorial for Pro-Fluoridation Candidates for Utilities Authority
Under normal circumstances, incumbent candidates have a leg up in elections. And while this year an anti-incumbent trend seems to be sweeping the country, we think incumbency is a plus for candidates for the Emerald Coast Utilities Authority. With the biggest public works project in Escambia County history — the new sewage treatment plant — […]