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• Health boards want fluoride on ballot

  Representatives of the Utah Association of Local Boards of Health are calling on commissioners of Utah and Davis counties to put the fluoride issue on the November ballot. Gayle Judd, Pleasant Grove, president-elect of the association and chairman of the Utah County Board of Health, said local health departments want the issue on the ballot. […]

• Marine City officials still considering fluoride issue

  Nine months later Marine City officials are considering the merits of having fluoride in city water. An incident last spring caused workers to shut down the tank used to fluoridate city water, ending at least a 40-year practice. Now, officials are waiting on a cost assessment for new equipment and are doing their own research […]

• Marine City water six months without fluoride

  Marine City citizens are being advised to get a fluoride supplement, while city officials decide how to finance a new fluoridation system for the water plant. City Manager John Gabor said Tetra Tech workers shutdown the system the end of April when they found it to be faulty. “It could be poisonous if levels got […]

• Port Angeles and Forks: Two Clallam cities combining legal efforts on fluoride

  The two cities in Clallam County that fluoridate their water are joining legal forces in a fight to continue the process. The cities of Port Angeles and Forks say they will combine legal efforts to address a new lawsuit seeking to stop the addition of fluoride to the water systems. The two cities will also […]

• Othello to flush fluoride out of well

  OTHELLO – A year-long rehabilitation project lowered fluoride levels in one of Othello’s municipal wells although the amounts still exceed US Environmental Protection Agency thresholds. The project – paid for with $309,000 in state and federal grants – plugged the 1,200 foot well at the 900 foot level to block the higher concentrations of fluoride […]

• Fluoride’s Effect on Acquatic Life Joins other Fluoride & Mercury Legislation in Washington State

  Three legislative measures that may affect public policy on fluoridation were introduced in the Washington State Legislature last week. The discussion of these bills concerning water quality and fluoridation may be further impacted by two additional measures and their companion bills concerning mercury — all-in-all a busy time for consumer advocates and vested-interest trade associations. […]

• Fluoride Center Stage at Pierce Co. Health Board Meeting

  The backdrop for Pierce County’s opening debate over fluoridated water was a movie screen filled with images of young mouths riddled with rotten teeth. “These are all children from Pierce County,” said Dr. Rebecca Sullivan, standing in front of a photo featuring six baby teeth blackened or eaten away by decay. “A lot of these […]

• A Vocal Audience Speaks: No Fluoride

  Water fluoridation took a thrashing in Spanaway Monday evening, along with health board members who failed to attend a public meeting on the subject. The choice of refreshments wasn’t very popular, either. About 70 people turned out for the Tacoma/Pierce County Health Department’s first community meeting on the agency’s proposal to require fluoridation of all […]

• Tacoma/Pierce County will study effect of fluoride on salmon

  The Tacoma/Pierce County Health Department will study the environmental impacts of fluoride – including its effect on salmon – before continuing with plans to mandate water fluoridation. The Board of Health made the decision Wednesday after meeting in executive session to discuss the possibility of lawsuits from fluoride opponents. No other community in Washington – […]

• Let voters have say on fluoride

  It looks like Utah County may be the odd county out when it comes to putting fluoridation on the ballot. Salt Lake and Davis counties have already agreed to put the fluoridation issue before voters in November, and Weber County is on the verge of making the decision. Utah County is the only remaining Wasatch […]