PRINCESS ANNE — Just because Somerset County can’t find an abundant supply of quality drinking water in underground aquifers to supply the town, it doesn’t mean a source doesn’t exist, said representatives from a Dover water utility who have sought informal permission from Princess Anne officials to dig. Principals at Tidewater Utilities Inc. recently met […]
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High fluoride levels in water creates crisis in Princess Anne; More than $80M in development halted
PRINCESS ANNE — The well water crisis in northern Somerset County is now hammering customers who rely on water from the Somerset County Sanitary District. Because of requirements mandated by the Maryland Department of the Environment concerning two proposed wells on Revell’s Neck Road, millions of dollars in new development in and around Princess Anne […]
Wicomico water and sewer plan to remain
SALISBURY — The Wicomico County comprehensive water and sewer plan is nearly 20 years old, but it will continue to age after the County Council asked staff Tuesday to return with more recommendations for private plants, a water and sewer authority and adding fluoride to more systems. Few questions were resolved after a nearly one […]
Health department warns about flouride
The Carroll County Health Department has sent a letter to Carroll County health professionals, asking them to warn parents against giving fluoridated water to infants. The letter, sent to all county pediatricians, family practitioners, obstetricians, dentists and the Carroll Hospital Center Birthing Center, states that the American Dental Association has released new guidelines on fluoride […]
For Want of a Dentist
Twelve-year-old Deamonte Driver died of a toothache Sunday. A routine, $80 tooth extraction might have saved him. If his mother had been insured. If his family had not lost its Medicaid. If Medicaid dentists weren’t so hard to find. If his mother hadn’t been focused on getting a dentist for his brother, who had six […]
Use of fluoride in water supply raises questions
UNION BRIDGE — Bret Grossnickle never thought much about the fluoride compounds he puts into the Westminster water system until a stranger called the water department asking where the city gets its fluoride. In light of Sept. 11 and a greater concern for homeland security, Grossnickle wondered why someone would want to know where the […]
High amounts of fluoride reported in water at Eastalco
ADAMSTOWN — The amount of fluoride in the water moving underground off Alcoa Eastalco Works’ property and onto William Renn’s farm in the 5500 block of Mountville Road may contain concentrations of fluoride in excess of what would be safe to drink, environmental and health experts at Johns Hopkins University said. Right near the property […]
State testing land for fluoride before Eastalco donates it
ADAMSTOWN — The 27 acres Alcoa Eastalco Works is donating to the Adamstown community for a park east of Carroll Manor Elementary is being monitored for fluoride as part of a consent order established between the state and the aluminum smelter in 1992, a state official said. “It’s a superfund site,” said Julie Oberg, communications […]
Eastalco claims EPA numbers are wrong
Alcoa-Eastalco Works, an aluminum manufacturer in Adamstown, claims a miscalculation in numbers is the reason behind a report showing the company’s release of hydrogen fluoride jumped slightly more than 2 million pounds. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) indicates that Eastalco’s release of hydrogen fluoride jumped from 594,787 pounds in 2001 to […]
For poor kids, few dentists means rampant tooth decay
SALISBURY — The chances of finding a dentist are slim for Lower Shore children who receive health insurance through the state, leading to tooth decay rates here that exceed both Maryland and national averages. Health specialists attribute the high rates of oral health disease to a shortage of dentists willing to accept the low reimbursement […]