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Cortland County health director to retire
S.N. Briere/staff reporter Cortland County Public Health Director Catherine Feuerherm, right, works with her secretary Cheryl Mrozowski on a presentation Feuerherm will give to the Legislature Health and Human services Committee in March. Feuerherm, who has been the director for 11 years, will retire in March. Two months after Catherine Feuerherm took over as Cortland […]
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Potsdam fluoride system bid goes over maximum, project on hold for now
POTSDAM — The installation of a new fluoride system for municipal water to replace the old failing system is on hold for the time being because the only bid received for the project was higher than the village had prepared for. Options now are “working with the bidder to discuss the price” with the hope […]
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Activists file lawsuit over Cohoes Norlite plant burning, storing PFOA for Defense Department
COHOES — Environmental groups are suing to stop the burning of the highly toxic chemical compounds PFOA and PFOS at the Norlite incineration plant in Cohoes. The chemicals have been burned at the plant under a 2019 U.S. Department of Defense contract to incinerate firefighting foam containing PFOA and PFOS that have been stored at […]
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City of Newburgh to Transition Water Supply
The City of Newburgh will be transitioning its source of drinking water from Brown’s Pond to the Catskill Aqueduct on January 27, 2020. The process will take approximately two to three days for the existing drinking water in the City’s water mains and water storage tanks to be consumed and fully replaced with filtered water […]
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Fluoridation: A 75-year-old Blunder
Seventy-five years ago, dentists convinced government officials to experiment on every Grand Rapids, Michigan, resident without individual informed-consent to prove that (not if) dosing the municipal water supply with untested sodium-fluoride chemicals would decay-proof children’s developing teeth. Planned to last 15 years, the 1945 study ended prematurely after 6 ½ years. Teeth of most children […]
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City of Newburgh Awarded $3 Million in Water Infrastructure Grants
NEWBURGH, NY – The City of Newburgh is pleased to announce the award of more than $3 million for improvements to the City’s drinking water infrastructure. The funding was made possible through the Water Infrastructure Improvement Act and the Intermunicipal Water Infrastructure Grant Program, and will be used to make state-of-the-art updates to the City’s […]
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Fluoridation for Yorktown, Somers and the Northern Westchester Joint Water Works.
Excerpt from a public hearing last week on Yorktown’s 2020 town budget: During the hearing, former Supervisor Susan Siegel and Yorktown resident and dentist, Dr. Carl H. Tegtmeier, chairman of the Dental Health Planning & Hospital Dentistry Committee, implored the town board to add $157,000 to the budget to complete a fluoridation project. Yorktown and […]
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Potsdam can expect new fluoridation system in spring
POTSDAM — The village can expect its new water fluoridation system to be in place next spring. At the Board of Trustees meeting Oct. 21, Mike Tamblin and Charles Prior of Environmental Design and Research (EDR), a consulting engineering firm, reported they are about to open bidding for purchase and installation of new fluoride hardware […]
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Long Islanders Wisely Rejected Fluoridation
Gov’t Never Studied Brain Effects Before Assuring Fluoridation Safety Because of smart informed activists, no Long Island water supplier adds unnecessary fluoride chemicals into the public drinking water attempting to prevent tooth decay in tap water drinkers. But New York City does. And legislators might start tapping into NYC’s fluoridated water soon to remedy LI’s […]
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Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ Detected in Drinking Water at N.Y. Army Installations
WASHINGTON – Drinking water supplies at seven Army installations in New York state are contaminated with elevated levels of toxic fluorinated chemicals called PFAS, according to newly released Department of Defense data obtained by EWG under the Freedom of Information Act. The sites in New York include Fort Drum, Camp Smith, West Point Military Reservation, […]
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