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Manchester Water District considers survey on fluoride
A quiet debate over fluoride in Manchester’s water supply continues, two months after opponents of the supplement asked for its removal. … The water district commissioners on Tuesday took no action but indicated they might consider a survey of ratepayers. A survey in 1994 showed water district residents 6 to 1 in favor of continuing […]
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City of Woodland now fluoride free
Public pressure leads to 6-1 vote by members of City Council The public forum held during the Aug. 19 meeting of the Woodland City Council was among the highest attended of the year, with citizens speaking their mind and offering a slew of internet-based evidence about why the city’s water system needed to be free […]
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Woodland council ends fluoridation
Woodland will remove fluoride from its water supply following a Monday city council decision. Councilors voted 6-1 to remove the additive from its water supply immediately. Councilman Al Swindell was the lone vote of dissent on the resolution. Councilman Benjamin Fredricks, who voted to remove fluoride from the water supply, said it boiled down to […]
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Woodland City Council votes 6-1 to stop using fluoride in water starting today
Fluoride is on its way out of Woodland’s water starting today. Citing personal freedom and patient rights, the City Council voted 6 to 1 to remove the additive. Woodland now becomes the only Cowlitz County city not to fluoridate. Councilman Al Swindell was the lone vote to continue fluoridation… In Cowlitz and Clark counties the […]
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Peninsula foes of fluoride petition high court
PORT ANGELES — Those opposed to adding fluoride to city water supplies on the North Olympic Peninsula have once again petitioned the state Supreme Court to clarify whether fluoridated city water supplies should be considered drugs. If so, those behind the petition claim cities would need approval from the Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, […]
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Wallula: Is there a fix for global warming under our feet?
After nearly a decade of preparation, the experiment that started last week near the banks of the Columbia River seems almost anti-climactic. Four cylindrical tanks, each containing about 40 tons of carbon dioxide, sit tethered by pipes and tubes to a hole in the ground. There’s a faint hum of machinery as a pump forces […]
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City of Woodland debating fluoridated water
The Woodland City Council chamber was more crowded than usual for a summer evening on July 15 as citizens offered their thoughts about having fluoride in the city water supply. At the end of the night, the council members voted unanimously to hold a public hearing on Mon., Aug. 19 to consider both keeping and […]
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Editorial: Health takes a hit with Parkland fluoride decision
How can a public utility buck a national trend in health care? Unfortunately, folks served by Parkland Light & Water are about to find out as that system moves toward no longer fluoridating its water supply. Prevention is the focus in health care now as a way of keeping health care costs at least somewhat […]
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Parkland will lose fluoridated water soon
Water in Parkland soon will lack a fluoride additive that a local company has been providing customers for 10 years. Board members for Parkland Light & Water, a private cooperative system that serves about 7,500 customers in the unincorporated community south of Tacoma, voted this month to stop fluoridation, which is used to reduce tooth […]
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Port Angeles: Court denies fluoridation foes’ appeal
PORT ANGELES — Opponents of fluoridated water supplies on the North Olympic Peninsula are again considering asking the state Supreme Court to stop the practice after three state appellate judges ruled against them last week. The panel of judges in the state’s Division II Court of Appeals last week agreed with a previous ruling that […]
United States, Washington State