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Proposed Groundwater Regulations Could Affect Upper Cape
The Upper Cape is home to two of Cape Cod’s five sites contaminated by chemicals in the PFAS family. Already, millions of dollars have been spent acting on a health advisory issued by the Environmental Protection Agency in 2016, which warned of health risks associated with two chemicals in the PFAS family, PFOA and PFOS. […]
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Cape Cod: Contamination Cleanup Presents Challenges To County
Barnstable County is working with federal and state environmental protection agencies to clean up a site contaminated by a history of use of firefighting foam. Massachusetts, meanwhile, has proposed tightening regulations on those contaminants. Both the county and the Town of Barnstable have already spent millions to address the problem caused by the chemicals, known […]
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Rockport Town Meeting on April 27 did not discuss fluoridation
Excerpts: Rockport voters convened on Saturday “for their Annual Town Meeting, a more than five-hour marathon that drew a few more than 200 voters to the Rockport High School gymnasium.” … An article on the fluoridation of the town’s water system was not taken up for discussion or vote because there was no motion to […]
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Rockport Town Meeting, Saturday April 27 at noon
What: Rockport Town Meeting to consider 21-item warrant. When: Saturday, April 27, at noon Where: Rockport High School gymnasium, 24 Jerdens Lane. ROCKPORT — When the town’s registered voters convene at Town Meeting on Saturday, they will consider a 21-article warrant, with downtown sound and the use of fluoride in the town’s drinking water among the items […]
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Manchester Town Meeting OKs plastic ban, fluoride, electronic voting
Excerpts: MANCHESTER — Town Meeting decided to kick more single-use plastics to the curb, keep sodium fluoride in the public water supply and splurge on an electronic voting system. The 251 residents attending, all registered voters as required, passed all articles on the warrant during the meeting’s single session Monday night… No change with fluoride When asked, “Do you want industrial […]
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Manchester town meeting, 7 pm, April 1st, vote on fluoridation.
Excerpt: In the Memorial Elementary School gymnasium, 43 Lincoln St. A quorum of 100 registered voters is needed. All articles will be introduced to the floor in order unless a motion is passed to move an article… Article 19, another citizen’s petition, asks voters this non-binding question: “Do you want industrial sodium fluoride added to the […]
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Fluoride in public water up for debate at Manchester Town Meeting
Excerpt: Town Meeting will be held Monday (April 1) at the Manchester Memorial Elementary School, 43 Lincoln St., from 7 to 9 p.m. MANCHESTER — At Town Meeting on Monday, registered voters will weigh in on whether they want industrial sodium fluoride added to the public water supply. The community group Manchester Residents for Removing Sodium Fluoride from Public Water Supply […]
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Chemical spill at lab sends 2 to hospital in Waltham
Two people were taken to the hospital Tuesday after a chemical spill at a Waltham lab, officials said. Police and firefighters rushed to 35 Gatehouse Drive after a minor release of hydrofluoric acid in one of the labs in the building around 9:53 a.m. The building is mostly occupied by Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals, Waltham Fire Lieutenant […]
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Letter: Fluoride an issue for local towns
To the editor: In reply to Dr. Gardner’s recent letter (“Fluoride is safe and effective,” March 7), which was primarily an attack on the author of another letter (“Elected officials need to address fluoride issue,” Feb. 7), the science published in recent years does not support the dogma that Dr. Gardner learned in medical school […]
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Letter: Fluoride is safe, effective
To the editor: Here we go again! I feel it necessary that I again respond to another anti-fluoridation letter in order to set the record straight and counter the comments made by the author (“Elected officials need to address fluoride issue,” Feb. 7) that are again misleading, unsubstantiated and fear mongering. The author begins by […]
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