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Bellefonte debates water fluoridation
Common ground could be hard to find between the borough authority that voted 5-0 in May to discontinue adding fluoride to its water system and local residents and area dentists who disagree with the decision. The tide turned Monday, at least for one person, in a public hearing held by Borough Council. Impassioned arguments were […]
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Candidates for Vernon supervisor talk commercial growth, water fluoridation, roundabouts
Excerpts: VERNON TOWNSHIP — Candidates for three seats on the Board of Supervisors agreed the township needs more commercial growth and doesn’t need fluoridated water, but there was no simple answer in the debate over roundabouts versus traffic lights. Five candidates for three seats on the township’s board of supervisors participated in the public forum […]
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Bellefonte to hold public hearing on water fluoridation decision
Bellefonte’s water was named the best tasting in 2014 at the Pennsylvania Rural Water Association Conference, but the borough authority’s decision to pull fluoride from it has left a bad taste in some people’s mouths. The Bellefonte Borough Authority voted 5-0 at its May 5 meeting to discontinue putting fluoride into the water, pending approval […]
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Pennsylvania. The Issue: Fluoridation of Public Drinking Water
An Update from the Joint Legislative Air and Water Pollution Control and Conservation Committee Introduction Recently, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) announced that they are lowering the recommended level of fluoride in public drinking water. This decision may initially seem innocuous, but it surprisingly carries a great deal of weight across […]
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Dentists bristle over Bellefonte fluoride decision
BELLEFONTE — A trio of dentists shared their concerns Tuesday with the borough water authority over the recent notification that the addition of fluoride in water would be coming to an end. The authority announced on July 28 that it would be discontinuing the addition of fluoride into treated drinking water, ending the practice by […]
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Bellefonte Borough Authority will end fluoridation
PUBLIC NOTIFICATION This Notice is for the Bellefonte Borough Authority Water customers, excluding those customers on the Corning distribution system (this distribution system was not previously fluoridated). Bellefonte Borough Authority is planning to discontinue the addition of fluoride into treated drinking water. This is NOT a notice that there has been any type of situation […]
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Health officials recommend lower fluoride levels for drinking water
Worries about fluoride in water have evolved over the decades.One of the first water fluoridation studies was in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1945. Howard Pollick, fluoride spokesman for the American Dental Association, says the start date for the Grand Rapids trial was published in the newspaper, but then the study was temporarily postponed before health […]
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Meadville’s Mark Gildea tapped for Water Authority seat
A man who has spent a career installing and repairing water and sewer systems was unanimously chosen by Meadville City Council to fill the Meadville Area Water Authority seat that has been vacant since January. … Gildea knows a hot button issue which has divided the community is whether the Meadville area should fluoridate its […]
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Meadville’s fluoridation debate could flare up later this summe
Putting fluoride in Meadville’s water supply has been a topic which has been debated off and on for more than 60 years. Discussion in front of the board that decides Meadville water supply’s fluoride fate could return as early as August. Fluoride is a hot button topic because talks of adding it to the city’s […]
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Water fluoridation debate reignites across Western Pennsylvania
Debates come and go, but there’s one — the seven-decades-old battle over fluoridating drinking water — that appears to be rekindling in Western Pennsylvania. Officials in Brackenridge were set to remove fluoride from the town’s water supply a few weeks ago. Then the borough’s switchboard began to light up. “At first, we were going to […]
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