Work continues on conventional upgrades to the Sheridan and Big Goose water treatment plants with an estimated completion date of October 2014. Sheridan Area Water Supply Joint Powers Board Project Manager Dan Coughlin gave the board a memo at its meeting Wednesday that outlined a time frame for major components of the upgrade. Highlights include: […]
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Top U.S. scientific misconduct official quits in frustration with bureaucracy
The director of the U.S. government office that monitors scientific misconduct in biomedical research has resigned after 2 years out of frustration with the “remarkably dysfunctional” federal bureaucracy. David Wright, director of the Office of Research Integrity (ORI), writes in a scathing resignation letter obtained by ScienceInsider that the huge amount of time he spent […]
Milwaukee: Free dental care available to MPS students at 46 schools
NOTE FROM FAN: Milwaukee has been fluoridated since July 1953 and the state of Wisconsin fluoridates 89.4% of its public water supplies. Two tiny kindergarten students reclining in portable dental chairs set up in the art and music classroom at the Henry David Thoreau Elementary School received free dental hygiene services one morning last week.Dental […]
Tertiary Minerals receives positive results at MB Fluorspar In Nevada
Tertiary Minerals PLC Monday said it has received positive results from final drilling at the MB Fluorspar project in the US state of Nevada and has awarded the contract to complete the site’s first JORC Mineral Resource Estimate. The AIM-traded fluorspar developer said results from two holes in the southern area of the site showed […]
Bay seals’ contamination with chemical puzzling
There’s a mystery afoot in San Francisco Bay, where harbor seals are contaminated with high levels of a man-made chemical that was pulled from production 12 years ago, and scientists can’t figure out why or what the effects are. Perfluorooctanesulfonic acid – once the primary ingredient in Scotchgard – has remained elevated in harbor seals even […]
Fluoride opponents target Healdsburg water
For more than 60 years, fluoride has been added to Healdsburg’s water to fight tooth decay. But that could end if opponents of fluoridated drinking water convince a majority of voters to stop the practice. Activists recently filed a notice of intent to begin circulating petitions to put the issue on the ballot. Healdsburg is […]
EPA warns Wolfforth about excess fluoride in water
Wolfforth officials have expected to someday receive a letter from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency about fluoride in the city’s water supply. On Monday, March 3, that day arrived. Wolfforth City Manager Darrell Newsom said he received a letter from the EPA ordering the city to lower levels of fluoride in its water within 18 […]
Fluoride Wars Resume—in ABQ
Meanwhile, Santa Fe fluoridates at a reduced level When city and county officials in Albuquerque met last week to discuss reinstating water fluoridation, the scene was one familiar to Santa Feans. Dozens of community members showed up to protest what they described as an unnecessary and potentially cancer-causing, IQ-lowering incursion on their liberty, while doctors […]
St. Peters advised to continue practice of adding fluoride to city water
A St. Peters health advisory committee recommended earlier this month that the city continue to add fluoride to drinking water from city wells to help lessen tooth decay. The city’s committee on health and wellness, an 11-member citizen advisory panel, advised the city not to change its policy on fluoridation to promote public health. Committee […]
Young kids’ tooth decay hits ‘epidemic’ proportions
Tooth decay is largely preventable, but it remains one of the most common diseases of childhood – five times as common as asthma, and seven times as common as hay fever, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC says 42% of children ages 2 to 11 have had cavities in baby teeth; […]