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Chapel Hill: The water company canceled its meeting. The fluoride critics showed up anyway
A group of protesters brought their concerns about fluoride to OWASA’s meeting Thursday, even thought no one was there to listen. Fluoride Free Chapel Hill/Carrboro members had planned to petition against fluoride at the Orange Water and Sewer Authority’s board of directors meeting. The meeting was canceled Aug. 10 when OWASA staff told the board […]
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Chapel Hill: Residents Protest Fluoride In OWASA Drinking Water
Michael Willock graduated from the UNC dental school and has been practicing for 30 years. If you visit his office there will be one thing unexpectedly missing – fluoride. “Fluorine is extremely toxic,” he said. “If you look at the periodic table where it sits, the pure fluoride will melt glass and eat concrete.” Willock […]
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PFOA: Grand jury investigating DEQ, Chemours amid GenX concerns in the Cape Fear
RALEIGH — A federal investigation is underway into the Department of Environmental Quality and the release of the chemical GenX into the Cape Fear River from the Chemours plant in eastern N.C. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina issued a criminal subpoena to N.C. DEQ requiring permits, emails, notes, compliance […]
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Forest City: Fluoride remaining in town’s water system
FOREST CITY — Fluoride is remaining in the city water in Forest City and a group of dental health professionals applauded the news Monday night at the meeting of Forest City Town Council. The dental professionals asked Town Council toleave the chemical fluoride in the town’s water system for the sake of everyone’s dental health in […]
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Chapel Hill: OWASA board unfairly dismisses fluoride concern
In Terri Buckner’s April 7 opinion piece, she presents herself as impartial: “As a member of the OWASA Board of Directors, I’ve invested many hours trying to understand the arguments against fluoride.” Yet her piece does not resemble an impartial opinion. She says that it’s OK to add fluoride to our drinking water because it […]
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Fluoride has no place in our drinking water – Claire Viadro
On Feb. 2, operational failures at OWASA increased fluoride levels to 8.4 times higher than normal. OWASA’s dangerous fiasco cost local businesses an estimated $3 million to $5 million. The substance added to OWASA water is fluorosilicic acid, a toxic corrosive. Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) information on fluorosilicic acid recommends its use for “tanning […]
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Chapel Hill: Commentary by Daria Barazandeh
As a resident of Chapel Hill and consumer of OWASA water who is deeply concerned about the effects of the commonly accepted practice of putting a toxic chemical in our water supply known as hydrofluorosilicic acid, or more commonly called fluoride, I have launched a local movement to have it stopped. The FDA classifies fluoride […]
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Orange County residents: Don’t put fluoride in water
CHAPEL HILL – Members of the community spoke out Thursday night against adding fluoride to the Orange County drinking-water supply — including a local dentist. “We advise our patients not to use fluoride in any form.” Said Dr. Michael Willock. The new concern began after an equipment malfunction and human error increased fluoride to a […]
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Orange Water and Sewer Authority apologizes for water woes at Thursday night meeting
CHAPEL HILL — Results of independent investigations into the over-fluoridation of water at the Jones Ferry Road Water Treatment Plant and a water main break causing a massive Orange County water shortage will be released Friday afternoon, Feb. 10. In its first meeting since more than 80,000 customers in Chapel Hill and Carrboro were without […]
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Chapel HIll: Human error caused OWASA fluoride overdose, OWASA very sorry about that
An “unintentional [water treatment plant] operator key stroke”—literally, someone hit the wrong button—caused the overfeed of fluoride that forced OWASA to shut down its water plant last week, according to independent reports released Friday. The extra fluoride dosage, plus a major water main break the next day, prompted a water shortage in Orange County that […]
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