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Holmen. Our view: Something in the water, but it isn’t fluoride
Cash-strapped agencies are doing all sorts of things to cut costs these days. In northern California, astronomers at the SETI Institute are shutting down their powerful radio dishes designed to probe the galaxy for extraterrestrial intelligence. Before they do that, we would beg them to train their devices toward Holmen to help us understand the […]
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Holmen board suspends fluoride
Excerpt: The Holmen village board voted 4-2 Tuesday night to suspend further application of fluoride in the water supply… The topic resurfaced Tuesday night at the request of all three newly elected village board trustees — Tony Horvath, Dawn Kulcinski and Dan Moser — who voted to suspend the fluoride treatments, as did sitting Trustee […]
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Holmen: Village Board votes 5-0 to add fluoride to water
Excerpt: … Public Works Director Robert Haines estimated the village would use 850 gallons of fluoride per year, which would bring the annual cost of the contract to about $4,100. Holmen’s well houses have been outfitted to add fluoride to the water system, so Haines expects the fluoride to begin flowing by the middle of […]
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Fond du Lac fluoride levels are reduced after CDC warns of health risks
The City of Fond du Lac has reduced the level of fluoride added to its municipal drinking water following a recent health alert from the Centers for Disease Control. Fluoride in the U.S. water supply should contain the lowest amount of the mineral recommended while the Environmental Protection Agency reviews the maximum level allowable, the […]
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Siren: Fluoridation to continue
SIREN—To continue to fluoridate the water supply was the question of the day for the Siren Village Board at last week’s meeting. “It costs the village about $1,000 a year to fluoridate the water,” village administrator Martin Shutt told the board. “Mike (Public Works Director Mike Bentley) brought it up as a way to cut […]
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Health officials want 243 rural water systems to fluoridate their water
Nearly half of rural adults in Wisconsin have lost teeth from decay, compared to just over a third of urban adults. Adding fluoride to rural drinking water systems could close that gap, health officials say. But 256 public water systems in the state – all but 13 of them rural – have fluoride levels below […]
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City of Amery resumes fluoridation
Old Business (Page 2) Update on City of Amery Discontinuation of Fluoridation Sampson talked about the Amery council meeting that she attended along with Bonnie Leonard, Public Health Supervisor and Brian Hobbs, Environmental Specialist. There were many speakers, including local dentists and other citizens expressing concern about the discontinuance of fluoridating the city water supply. […]
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City of Amery ends fluoridation due to costs
Excerpt from Minutes: (Page 2) … Sampson distributed a letter received from the City of Amery stating as of November 30, 2009 they have discontinued fluoridation of the water supply due to cost considerations. Sampson stated the Chief Dental Officer in Madison has contacted the American Dental Society regarding this. Sampson feels that the Board […]
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Madison City Hall to review “Fluoridation Policy”
Tuesday, July 28: Water Utility Board, 4:30 p.m., Rooms A & B of the Water Utility building, 119 E. Olin Ave. Establishing treatment policies for iron and manganese, more on well abandonment rebates, the capital budget, reviewing fluoridation policy, and a ton of the usual reports… Print PDF
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Catching up: Is fluoride back in water in Poynette?
After a very public and feisty debate last spring and a handful of new village trustees, fluoride quietly returned to Poynette’s water supply on July 9. The new village administrator, Dan Guild, said the equipment has been available — it was just a matter of integrating the chemicals. Last July, the Poynette Village Board voted […]
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