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King introduces bill that sets new criteria for water additives
LITTLE ROCK — Last week, state Sen. Bryan King, R-Green Forest, filed Senate Bill 255, which would establish criteria for substances added to public drinking water that are not required to make it potable. This bill would pertain to chemicals like fluoride. The bill follows a long controversy in the state over adding fluoride to […]
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No. 4 News Story of the Year: The furious fight against fluoride: State mandates rile opponents, may be on hold now
Reprinted with permission from Carroll County News EUREKA SPRINGS — One of the biggest issues countywide in 2012 was the state-mandated fluoridation of the drinking water supply, and the issue comes at No. 4 on our Top Ten list of news stories for the year. While Carroll-Boone Water District’s water is not yet fluoridated, questions […]
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Arkansas’ De Queen receives grant to cover startup costs of adding fluoride to water system
TEXARKANA, Arkansas — The western Arkansas city of De Queen received a more than $17,000 grant to cover the startup costs of adding fluoride to its water system. The grant from the Delta Dental of Arkansas Foundation comes after state legislators last year passed a law requiring water municipalities serving 5,000 or more customers to […]
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Carroll-Boone Water District manager Jim Allison dies
EUREKA SPRINGS — James Ray Allison, office manager of the Carroll-Boone Water District, passed away suddenly Sunday of unknown causes at the age of 67. Allison had worked for the water district for about 20 years, with some time in between opening a restaurant in Eureka Springs with his wife, Sandra, and working in a […]
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Two Carroll-Boone Water District board seats being contested
For the first time in anyone’s recollection, two seats on the Carroll-Boone Water District Board of Directors are being challenged in the upcoming general election… [The candidates] Matthews and Price-Backs have appeared at CBWD meetings over the last year, speaking out against fluoride and bringing information to the board about other communities across Europe and the […]
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Hot Springs: Expanded water plant will fluoridate Village water
A $170,000 grant will allow Hot Spring Village drinking water to be fluoridated for the first time. Of the Village’s 14,000 residents, about 750 of them are under the age of 18, based on a 2009 Voice survey of area children. You must be an online subscriber to view this story. The full version of […]
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Carroll-Boone Water: Fluoride project delayed (updated)
EUREKA SPRINGS — Opponents of mandatory fluoridated drinking water heard good news Thursday at the quarterly Carroll-Boone Water District meeting: CBWD attorney Dan Bowers said Delta Dental had told him that the fluoride project has been delayed considerably. “We have withdrawn our proposal and replaced it with a similar proposal, but the funding period is […]
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Eureka resolution: No fluoride
EUREKA SPRINGS — The Eureka Springs City Council formally adopted Resolution 600 on Monday night that opposes the fluoridation of the city’s water supply. After being voted down twice by residents of the city, the law requiring fluoridation that was passed by the Arkansas Legislature last year could still go into effect in the near […]
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Carroll-Boone Water: New mandate for fluoride stirs up lots of local opposition
An abnormally large crowd of about 25 local residents attended a meeting of the Carroll Boone Water District Board on Thursday, sharing concerns and asking questions about the proposed fluoridation of the district’s water supply. The board took no action at the meeting in which members heard from several of the opponents present. In addition, […]
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Carroll-Boone Water: Water board will hear update on fluoride cost study
EUREKA SPRINGS — The Carroll-Boone Water District will hold its regular quarterly meeting Thursday, April 19, at 10 a.m. at the Freeman-Raney Water Treatment Plant on Hwy. 187, west of Eureka Springs. On the agenda will be an update of the fluoride study done by engineers McGoodwin, Williams & Yates (MWY). The board will review […]
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