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Ferris notifies residents of lowered fluoride levels
FERRIS – On Jan. 20 The City of Ferris notified customers drinking water being supplied to customers had exceeded the Maximum Contaminant level for fluoride. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency established the MCl for fluoride at 4.0 milligrams per liter based on running annual average. Recently the city was notified levels have receded below the […]
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Marathon Petroleum Company chemical leak in 1987
Excerpt from long article: It’s become an unfortunately appropriate symbol for Texas City, which has suffered disaster after disaster in the years since. In 1987, a chemical leak at a Marathon Petroleum Company facility released hydrofluoric acid into the air, sending 140 people to the hospital, with 900 more treated for respiratory and eye problems […]
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Colonias on the border struggle with decades-old water issues
The following is an excerpt from a much longer article: All along the U.S.-Mexico border, about 840,000 mostly low-income, immigrant Latinos have settled in colonias – cheap plots of land outside city limits without basic infrastructure such as water and sewage systems, electricity and paved roads. Twenty-three years ago, Olivia Figueroa left her neighborhood in […]
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Testing water quality – How do neighboring cities compare?
CENTRAL TEXAS – After Sonterra MUD, a development in Jarrell, was alerted about higher-than-safe levels of fluoride in their water supply, KVUE wanted to see if their situation was isolated or mimicked in nearby communities. Sonterra’s high fluoride level stems from naturally occurring fluoride sources in their groundwater. The MUD has to then dilute to […]
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Electro Dialysis Reversal: Despite Wolfforth water improvements, citizens will still receive notice
WOLFFORTH — After going active on May 10, the city of Wolfforth has seen results from its Electro Dialysis Reversal (EDR) plant. Wolfforth city manager Darrell Newsom announced that the Texas Commission of Environmental Quality (TCEQ) gave the city the go-ahead after a nearly five-year wait. Construction of the $6.7 million EDR project was approved […]
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Tense meeting between Jarrell residents, utility board over fluoride concerns
JARRELL, Texas — After a notification that their water contained higher than safe levels of fluoride last week, residents in the Sonterra community in Jarrell finally got their chance to talk to officials about it. The community was sent a state-mandated letter after their water sources measured higher than 4.0 milligrams per liter of fluoride, […]
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Fluoride in Jarrell community’s water reaches unsafe levels
Some Jarrell residents living in the Sonterra community are worried about what’s in their water. They say they’ve received a notification that the water has high levels of naturally-occurring fluoride. “Bits of particles floating around inside there,” Mauricio Fernandez pointed out. Since the start of the year, he’s wondered what’s in his water. “We’ve been […]
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Fluoride for Texas: Promoting Community Water Fluoridation
The Texas Oral Health Coalition unequivocally supports community water fluoridation in the fight against dental decay for adults and children living in the state of Texas. Community water fluoridation is the adjustment of the existing fluoride levels in the public drinking water systems to a level that reduces tooth decay. Scientific evidence compiled over more […]
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Buda to vote in November on water fluoridation
Buda residents will have a chance to vote on whether the city should fluoridate its water supply in November, the City Council decided Tuesday prior to a public hearing on the issue. The City Council’s decision to resume fluoridation elicited a roaring outcry from many residents, which led the city to postpone the measure until […]
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Ferris Independent School District ceases use of city water for consumption
FERRIS — Ferris Independent School District [ISD] has stopped providing City of Ferris water to students following the city’s announcement of high fluoride levels. “We were notified at 3:00 yesterday afternoon (Thursday) about a water quality issue with the City of Ferris related to fluoride levels. We immediately implemented contingency plans which include disconnecting drinking […]
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