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Brevard dentists, national health orgs mount pro-fluoride campaign in Titusville
The battle over fluoride in Brevard County’s water shows no signs of ending anytime soon. Local dentists, backed by major national health groups, are mounting a preemptive campaign encouraging the City of Titusville to continue adding fluoride to its drinking water, after the county abruptly halted the practice in Mims earlier this month. County utilities […]
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Brevard cuts off flow of fluoride to water supply in Mims
As of 1 p.m. Thursday, May 13, Brevard County stopped providing water fluoridation for the water supply in Mims. (Spectrum News/Will Robinson-Smith) MIMS, Fla. — Brevard County Utilities stopped adding fluoride to the water supply in Mims indefinitely on Thursday, about 10 days after the Brevard County Commission voted to do so. What You Need […]
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Following a no notice vote, Brevard County okays cutting fluoride from Mims water Thursday
Starting at 1 p.m. this Thursday, by order of the Brevard County Commission,the Mims water supply will no longer be fluoridated to the specifications recommended by public health agencies to prevent cavities. The announcement of the decision comes one week after a snap unscheduled commission vote, raising questions about whether the surprisemove runs afoul of Florida’s […]
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County leaders seem to have accidentally approved removing fluoride from Mims water
The Brevard County Commission appear to have accidentally approved the removal of fluoride from the Mims water supply. In a snap vote Tuesday, commissioners unanimously approved a request from Commission Chair Rita Pritchett, permitting her to begin halting the addition of fluoride at the county-run water treatment facility in her North Brevard district. The problem was: no one […]
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… Pritchett wants fluoride gone in Mims
Excerpt from article titled, “Smith doesn’t rule out tolls on Brevard highway; Pritchett wants fluoride gone in Mims” The Brevard County C0mmission on Tuesday … gave permission to begin a push by Commission Chair Rita Pritchett to remove fluoride from the Mims water supply. *Original article online at https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/05/05/smith-doesnt-rule-out-tolls-brevard-highway-pritchett-wants-fluoride-gone-mims/4950717001/ Print PDF
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Piney Point: ‘No community should suffer this’: Florida’s toxic breach was decades in the making
A leak at an abandoned fertilizer plant is just the latest development at a site that has polluted the area since it was built 01:10 Drone footage of Florida reservoir shows toxic water leak near Tampa Bay – video It’s been a week since a significant leak at a long-abandoned fertilizer plant in the Tampa […]
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Piney Point: Florida lawmakers budget $3 million to clean up Piney Point and help “put it behind us once and for all”
Piney Point, a former phosphate mining facility that has been leaking potentially toxic water in the Tampa Bay area, may soon be cleaned up and heading to permanent closure. On Wednesday, Florida state senators passed an amendment that would allocate $3 million to clean up and safely dispose of the wastewater that, for decades, has […]
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Piney Point: Florida’s latest regulatory nightmare exposes a glaring national failure
As environmental regulators and politicians nervously saluted efforts to prevent the catastrophic release of millions of gallons of wastewater from the aging Piney Point phosphogypsum wastewater storage pond near Tampa, Fla., this week, there was scarce little talk of how we got here. Or of how we’ll prevent similar disasters moving forward. Much like the […]
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Piney Point: What you need to know on Monday about evacuations, wastewater dangers
Last week, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection approved the pumping of wastewater into the Tampa Bay ecosystem from a reservoir at Piney Point – a former phosphate plant in Manatee County. A leak in the liner of the reservoir has caused a partial breach in one of the containment walls and officials hope that […]
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Piney Point: Florida reservoir collapse: What is phosphogypsum and is it radioactive?
Manatee County officials along Florida’s Gulf Coast have ordered more than 300 people to flee from their homes should the reservoir breach. The collapse of the Piney Point reservoir threatens a full-blown environmental disaster at a former phosphate mining facility. The National Guard has been deployed to help coordinate the emergency response after one of […]
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