PINELLAS PARK – After hearing arguments from both sides Jan. 24, the Pinellas Park City Council unanimously agreed that fluoride should be added back to city water. The city will be applying for state funding to help cover the capital expenditure and could begin building the new infrastructure at its water pumping stations in July. […]
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Wired report examines fluoride effort that started in Grand Rapids
GRAND RAPIDS — Our city became the first in the country to add fluoride to its municipal water system 67 years ago today, a public health triumph quickly duplicated elsewhere despite Cold War hysteria that fluoridation was part of a communist plot to poison the water supply. Today, more than two-thirds of public water systems […]
Carroll-Boone: Water district examining fluoridation
EUREKA SPRINGS — Fluoridating the Carroll-Boone drinking water is moving closer to reality with the presentation of a preliminary study by consulting engineers McGoodwin, Williams & Yates (MWY) at the water district’s quarterly meeting Thursday. Engineer Brad Hammond, along with Jim Vetter of MWY, presented the report and said the cost of construction of two […]
Western Springs: An overview of reverse osmosis in the new water plant
By now, most Western Springs residents are aware than an approximately $8 million project—the most expensive in Village history—is underway to completely transform the Village water-treatment plant at 614 Hillgrove Ave. into a reverse-osmosis system, one which will provide Village residents with higher-quality water than ever before. (See photos of the progress here.) And at […]
Dental Exam Went Well? Thank Fluoride
I admit to being jealous of my sons for growing up in a time whenvaccines spared them miseries like the measles, mumps and polio scares that marred my childhood. But I’m most envious of their freedom from the dental decay that forced me to spend countless miserable hours with my mouth propped open while the […]
Olivehurst: No fluoride decision by OPUD directors
Fluoride had its serious backers and passionate opponents at Thursday night’s Olivehurst Public Utility District board meeting, but a decision on whether it’ll continue to be added to the district’s water is still to come. Before more than an hour of comments, testimony and occasionally heated rhetoric, Chairman James Carpenter said the board, with one […]
Wahoo: Petition process necessary for revote
Another vote on fluoride in Wahoo’s drinking water still rests in the hands of petitioners. The Wahoo City Council took no action last Thursday on a request to forgo the petition process and have the government once again put the question of adding fluoride to the town’s voters. The state legislature has mandated that cities […]
Fluoride, Dentists’ “Magic Bullet,” Is Shooting Blanks
Despite decades of water fluoridation in New York State, the Journal of the American Dental Association reports that emergency treatment for NYS toddlers’ severe tooth decay has grown substantially in numbers and costs, many require general anesthesia, (1) reports the New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc. (NYSCOF) Fluoridation is touted as an effective […]
Myerstown ends fluoridation of its drinking water
IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR DRINKING WATER ESTE Myerstown Water Authority will stop adding fluoride to your drinking water. We have received an amended operation permit from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, which allows us to stop adding hydrofluorosilicic acid (fluoride) to your drinking water. The PA Safe Drinking Water Act and Regulations require the […]
Pinellas Park considers fluoride
PINELLAS PARK – Residents within the Pinellas Park water service district could have fluoride added back into their water supply, despite a recent decision to stop the practice at the county level. The city would have to spend about $108,000 for one-time infrastructure costs and about $71,000 annually to supplement its water with fluoride, Public […]