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Utah city delayed notifying state, public of contaminated water
SANDY — Contaminated drinking water sickened a 3-month-old baby and several other people in an area of Sandy where a no-drink order is in place pending lab results on levels of copper and lead. The Utah Division of Drinking Water urged Sandy city officials all last week to hasten sampling and completion of results that […]
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Sandy delayed notifying state, public of contaminated water
SANDY — Contaminated drinking water sickened a 3-month-old baby and several other people in an area of Sandy where a no-drink order is in place pending lab results on levels of copper and lead. The Utah Division of Drinking Water urged Sandy city officials all last week to hasten sampling and completion of results that […]
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Sandy City has been cited by DEQ after tap water found contaminated with lead, copper and fluoride
Photo courtesy of Cindie Quintana Water is being distributed at a parking lot in Sandy for residents affected by high metal levels in their drinking water. Sandy City has been cited by the state Department of Environmental Quality after tests found high levels of lead, copper and fluoride in its water systems and is advising […]
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High levels of fluoride, copper and lead detected in water for hundreds of Sandy residents, city says
UPDATE: Sandy City issued an update Saturday advising residents from 10600 South to 11400 South and 700 East to 2000 East to not drink the water. In a press release, Sandy City said not to drink or cook with the water until lab results confirm whether or not lead and copper concentration levels are safe. The […]
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Sandy estimates 600 homes affected by water contamination, says to flush water systems
SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — In a press conference Friday evening, officials from Sandy City clarified that an estimated 600 homes’ water systems were contaminated with lead and copper. The city said the contamination was due to elevated levels of fluoride in the water from a pump that malfunctioned after a power outage last week. […]
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High levels of lead, copper found in drinking water for 600 Sandy households, officials say
SANDY — Elevated levels of lead and copper have been found in Sandy’s drinking water, affecting some homes in the area, according to Utah Department of Environmental Quality spokeswoman Donna Spangler. Sandy City officials are reaching out to affected residents to notify them of precautions they should take, the Utah Department of Environmental Quality said […]
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Op-ed: EPA rule change could harm the Wasatch Front
The Federal Emergency Management Administration considers earthquakes along the Wasatch Fault Utah’s biggest natural threat. Eighty percent of Utah’s population resides within 15 miles of this fault. For better or worse, we have put nearly all our eggs in one very geologically risky basket. Seismologists calculate that there is a nearly 1 in 2 chance […]
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Vernal City Council meets, makes statement on fluoride
Excerpt: The Vernal City Council met for their regularly scheduled monthly meeting last week, opening the meeting with a statement regarding fluoride. “There has been a lot of buzz and discussion and Facebook posts on the topic of fluoridation of our local drinking water,” Mayor Doug Hammond said. “The topic is not on our agenda […]
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Baby Your Baby: Oral Health for Babies
Note from FAN: This article is important for calculating fluoride exposure of the young child. As noted below, the recommendation is for twice-a-day brushing with a fluoride toothpaste for under three-year-olds with a grain-of-rice sized amount and over three-years with a pea-sized amount. This toothpaste will be swallowed by the child. How much fluoride is […]
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New research may be blueprint for tackling Utah’s wintertime inversion
SALT LAKE CITY — Anyone who breathes in northern Utah ought to be paying attention to the efforts of a $2 million, first-of-its-kind study analyzing the area’s notorious wintertime pollution problem. Researchers and scientists from the federal and state agencies and multiple universities have been meeting Monday and Tuesday at the University of Utah to […]
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