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Public officials, environmentalists call for quick action by state and feds to resolve Newburgh’s water contamination
NEWBURGH – It has been three years since the chemicals PFOS and PFOA were discovered in the City of Newburgh’s Washington Lake reservoir, leading to officials immediately turning it off. Since then, the city has been obtaining its water from the New York City Catskill Aqueduct, paid for by the state. The source of the […]
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Madison County Health Department receives national grant for oral health
Wampsville, N.Y. — With money from the Barclay-Giel Seed Grant, the Madison County Department of Health will be launching an oral health community campaign. “We here at the Health Department are pleased to announce that we have been awarded the $7,500 grant to launch an Oral Health Community Campaign in Madison County,” said Eric Faisst, director of […]
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LI’s congressional delegation calls on EPA to move faster on drinking water standards
As the state prepares to recommend drinking water standards for emerging contaminants, Long Island’s congressional delegation called Tuesday for the federal government to set its own standards and help local governments pay for treatment. “We ask the Environmental Protection Agency to act with urgency,” Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-Garden City) said at the Town of Hempstead’s […]
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Newburgh Mayor Says His Focus Includes Development, Housing
Note from Fluoride Action Network The City of Newburgh N.Y. was fluoridated on May 2, 1945, and was the key city in the first fluoridation experiments in the U.S. The control city was Kingston N.Y., which remained fluoride-free throughout the 10-year experiment. One of the major findings in this experiment was that the girls in […]
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State Declares East Hampton Airport Hazardous Waste Site
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has ordered 47 acres of East Hampton Airport added to the “Superfund” hazardous waste site list, in the wake of its investigation of chemical contamination of groundwater in southern Wainscott. After a year-long investigation, the DEC identified a half-dozen sites on the 570-acre airport property that showed […]
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NYS DEC Receives Results From Firefighting Foam Release
The New York state Department of Environmental Conservation has received validated results from April’s accidental release of firefighting foam from New York Stewart International Airport in Orange County. DEC says more testing is required by the company that operates the hangar where the spill occurred. The firefighting foam had made its way into a stream […]
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Albany: Looking Back
Note from the Fluoride Action Network: Albany, the state capital of New York, has never been fluoridated. It’s population is estimated at 98,251. The CDC’s My Water’s Fluoride identified 35 water systems in Albany County, out of which five fluoridate. The natural fluoride levels were given for most of the water systems. See the table […]
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Madison County: Oral Health Report 2019
Excerpts from the Oral Health Report PAGE 5 Children in Madison County consume a significantly higher proportion of fluoride tablets then children in the state (Table 1). This is most likely due to the fact that 32 percent of the county’s population is served by individual/private water sources (e.g., wells), and of the population on […]
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Facebook Poll Reignites Fluoride Debate in Yorktown
YORKTOWN, N.Y. [Westchester County] – An invitation by Councilman Ed Lachterman to respond to a poll he posted on Yorktown Families’ Facebook page about the proposed fluoridation of the municipality’s water elicited one he probably wasn’t expecting at the Town Board’s regular meeting held last week at the John C. Hart Memorial Library. First up […]
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$44M to clean up water near Stewart, other facilities
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The federal budget passed last month includes just under $44 million to clean up the toxic chemicals that have poisoned drinking water sources near Stewart Air National Guard Base and other military facilities around the country. U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand announced the funding for the U.S. […]
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