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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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High level of firefighting chemical detected in East Quogue
Result came from a groundwater monitoring well, but Suffolk County plans to offer testing of private drinking water wells at 107 nearby homes. A monitoring well drilled near a former landfill in East Quogue has detected a perfluorinated compound in a concentration more than 150 times the level at which federal officials say exposure in […]
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$2.4M filtration system being installed at source of Newburgh water contamination
NEWBURGH — A new $2.4 million filtration system designed to prevent further contamination of the City of Newburgh’s former primary drinking water source is expected to be up and running by the end of this summer, according to a news release Wednesday from Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, an agency […]
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Fluoride, Not Just Toothpaste, is Overused
New York – February 6, 2019 — CDC reports that toddlers’ fluoride overuse from toothpaste can discolor their forming secondary teeth. Dental fluorosis – white-spotted or yellow-stained teeth – now afflicts 61% of teens, federal statistics show. Toothpaste is just one of many tooth-damaging fluoride sources which children are exposed to, reports the New York […]
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Fluoride-Disparaging Studies Rarely Publicized. Why?
Poorly done pro-fluoride studies are widely publicized. Fluoride disparaging studies are not. This past year, more studies link fluoride to brain, kidney, thyroid, bone and vascular damage, reports the New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc. (NYSCOF). Fluoride chemicals added to public water supplies is touted as a safe tooth-decay preventive. However, a growing […]
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Yorktown Aims to Return Fluoride to Drinking Water
YORKTOWN, N.Y. – The Town Board on Tuesday, Dec. 18, took its first concrete step toward returning fluoride to the water supplied by the Catskill Aqueduct to residents by authorizing a transfer of $209,000 from the Water District’s fund balance to pay the design consultant of a new fluoridation system, thereby establishing it as a […]
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