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Fluoride leak shuts the taps
Dec 11, 2005 — Officials are investigating a leak at a Pennsylvania-American Water Co. treatment plant that sent an estimated 600 gallons of fluoride into the system on Saturday, prompting a public warning for customers not to drink the water. The leak raised the fluoride levels in the area from one part per million to […]
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Mercury disposal by dentists becomes focus of DEP review
HARRISBURG – The office of Donald Robbins looks more like a science laboratory than a dental-exam room. The Exton dentist uses an atomic spectrometer, intra-oral camera, and high-efficiency mercury air cleaner to keep his patients and staff free from mercury, an ingredient in fillings that some say can cause serious health problems. Robbins is proud […]
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Population Explosion
On the afternoon of Sept. 20, 1994, several mysterious yellow clouds floated eerily above the treetops in Southwest Philadelphia. Local residents remember looking up at the sky with a marked sense of fear. “We figured it had come from the refinery, and we had no idea whether the stuff was dangerous,” recalls Al Caporali, who […]
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Fluoridated Pittsburgh: Highest rate of Tooth Decay in State
Myles Lenger, 7, knew he was due for a dentist’s visit. A free dental screening Saturday at Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh on the North Side proved him right. Hygienist Lisa Fabrizio found a cavity when she checked the second-grader from Monongahela, Washington County. Myles was among more than 400 children who got a free checkup […]
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Toxic gas leak
EAST DEER — About 200 township residents evacuated Monday when a derailed tanker leaked a toxic gas into the Allegheny River might not be allowed to return to their homes until sometime Wednesday. Anhydrous hydrogen fluoride gas leaking from the derailed, overturned and submerged tanker can, if released into the air, cause eye, nose and […]
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Train Derailment Causes Hundreds Of Evacuations In Pa.
EAST DEER TOWNSHIP, Pa. — A train derailed in East Deer Township at about 6 a.m. Monday and emergency crews evacuated some homes in the area. At least 13 of the 83 cars on the Norfolk Southern train derailed and eight of those cars were carrying hazardous materials, according to officials. Reports from the scene […]
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Farmers persist in fight with chemical company
Merrill Mest remains convinced that man, not nature, caused the purple pigs. The northern Montgomery County farmer believes that fluoride emissions from the nearby chemical plant, Cabot Performance Materials, made his cows sick and turned some nearby fields and pigs purple in the 1990s. The courts have yet to agree. In April, a federal judge […]
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Farmers sue Cabot Corp. for alleged metal fluoride poisoning
Two Gilbertsville, PA farmers have filed a lawsuit against Cabot Corp., alleging that its specialty metals facility at Boyertown, PA is responsible for metal fluoride poisoning that has caused dozens of cows to become ill and drastically reduce milk production. The lawsuit, which is scheduled to go to trial in February 2004, cites former employee […]
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In the Shadow of Danger: The Chemical Plant Peril
At a sleepy council meeting in December, Paulsboro’s emergency-management coordinator waited his turn. Then, Glenn Roemmich stood, cleared his throat, and matter-of-factly suggested that the Gloucester County river town needed six-story warning sirens – “in case something happens” at the neighboring refinery. But to warn of what? It could be a small leak of hydrogen […]
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Unanimous vote keeps Shaler’s water fluoride-free
Shaler commissioners have decided to keep the township’s water supply free of fluoride. By a 7-0 vote, commissioners decided to go along with a water committee’s recommendation last month to reject a proposal that would add fluoride to the water. Shaler’s water supply, which comes from underground aquifers near the Allegheny River and supplies more […]
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