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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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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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