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Avon Park stops water fluoridation
AVON PARK – Citing “no quality control,” City Manager Julian Deleon has stopped the injection of fluoride into the city’s drinking water. Deleon said he contacted the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to request permission to discontinue the fluoridation practice. The fluoride injection system has technology problems, he said. The water demand drops off “drastically” […]
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Piney Point tainted water threat grows
If the water storage systems fail, millions of gallons of contaminated water could again flow into Bishop Harbor. The owners of a former phosphate processing plant here have failed to comply with several environmental mandates after millions of gallons of tainted factory water spilled into Bishop Harbor during a Port Manatee dredging project. HRK Holdings […]
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Opponent to fluoridation of water presents his case in Brooksville
BROOKSVILLE — The ongoing question of whether to return fluoride to Brooksville’s water supply got another round of attention Tuesday night during a City Council workshop devoted to the opinions of a retired environmental chemistry professor who opposes the practice. Paul Connett, who taught at St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y., and is co-author of […]
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No citizen input allowed at Brooksville fluoride talk
Dr. Paul Connett, a top fluoride opponent, addressed Brooksville City Council and about 50 attendees during a Tuesday night budget workshop at City Hall. This was the second workshop on the contentious issue. The first workshop was held in May, with presentations from public health officials and dentists in favor of fluoridation, and Mayor Lara […]
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Brooksville: Anti-fluoride advocate to speak
Dr. Paul Connett, a chemist and internationally known fluoride opponent, will speak Tuesday night during a Brooksville City Council budget workshop. Mayor Lara Bradburn was envisioning a “presidential-style debate” earlier this summer, and was hoping for a health department representative to go head-to-head with Connett. On Monday evening during a regular City Council meeting, Bradburn […]
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Fluoride advocates decline to take stage at Brooksville fluoridation debate
BROOKSVILLE — The much ballyhooed “presidential-style” debate on fluoridated drinking water, scheduled to take place Tuesday evening at a Brooksville City Council budget workshop, won’t come off as advertised. Instead, attendees will be treated to a presentation condemning the practice by Dr. Paul Connett, co-author of The Case Against Fluoride. Brooksville Mayor Lara Bradburn, a […]
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Brooksville: Fluoride advocate declines debate
BROOKSVILLE – Dr. Johnny Johnson, a retired pediatric dentist, has declined Mayor Lara Bradburn’s invitation to debate a nationally known fluoride opponent. Bradburn announced Monday Dr. Paul Connett, author of “The Case Against Fluoride,” would attend an Aug. 27 budget workshop at Brooksville City Hall. Bradburn is planning a “presidential-style debate,” and invited Johnson to […]
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CH2M HILL’s Impact Statement for Phosphate Mining in the Central Florida
BRADENTON — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has announced, that the Areawide Environmental Impact Statement for Phosphate Mining in the Central Florida Phosphate District, was reviewed and approved in its entirety by the Corp. However, it failed to mention that CH2M HILL, the company that performed the impact statement, has numerous ties to both […]
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Swing vote on Brooksville City Council favors fluoride in water
When Brooksville City Council held a water fluoridation workshop in May, Council member Joe Bernardini said he had some more things to think about before making up his mind. “Right now, I would be in favor of fluoride,” Bernardini said earlier this week during a regular Council meeting. “But I would like to place it […]
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Brooksville: Fluoridation talk of town
Brooksville Mayor Lara Bradburn said earlier this year, if the Hernando County Health Department was to present the benefits of fluoride in tap water, she’d like to hear the other side. During Tuesday evening’s water fluoridation workshop, Bradburn took matters into her own hands, and presented what she believed to be the dangers of fluoride […]
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