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RentalsBeatrice residents will decide Tuesday whether or not to adopt an ordinance prohibiting the fluoridation of the city’s drinking water.
A vote yes on the measure will prohibit fluoridation. A vote no will allow for fluoridation of the water.
In April, the Nebraska Legislature passed LB245, which requires fluoride to be added to drinking water in cities and towns with more than 1,000 residents by June 1, 2010.
Under the state law, cities and towns are able to opt out of the requirement if residents vote it down or if there is enough naturally occurring fluoride already in the water supply. Beatrice water’s natural fluoridation level is .25.
Most of Nebraska’ population -- more than 942,000 people -- is served by 65 public water systems that add fluoride to water. Forty-one systems are naturally fluoridated. But 64 Nebraska communities with more than 1,000 people, including Beatrice, don’t add fluoride or have enough on their own.
The City of Beatrice made the decision in August to allow the citizens of Beatrice to decide on whether to fluoridate or not in the Nov. 4 election.
“In the past it has been a highly controversial and emotionally charged issue,” Beatrice Mayor Dennis Schuster said. “Since the Legislature allowed for cities to put it to a vote, that’s what we did.”
However, Schuster has noticed the issue isn’t as controversial as it has been in the past. When the issue was on the ballot 30 years ago, there was many people who spoke out for or against it, he said.
That hasn’t been the case this time around.
Beatrice fluoridated its water from April 17, 1950, to Nov. 23, 1954, as recommended by the Gage County Dental Association. Fluoridation stopped in 1954 after a petition was circulated in the community and the issue was placed on the ballot, Steve Kelley, Board of Public Works water superintendent, said.
Voters chose 2 to 1 to stop fluoridation. The issue was on the ballot two or three other times as well.
Many local Beatrice dentists are for fluoridation.
“For every $1 on fluoridation you save $80 in dental treatments,” Dr. Tim Gleason, DDS, said. The best thing about it is it reaches everybody, not just people with dental insurance.”
Gleason said people should not be worried about fluoridation in the water. It has been done for a number of years and there hasn’t been scientific evidence linking it to increased health risks.
“It’s proven over the year’s it’s safe,” Dr. Bert Villafane, DDS, said.
If the city does add fluoride, residential water customers would see an increase of about 25 cents on their monthly bill, Kelley said. Commercial customers would see about a $1.50 increase each month.
Beatrice Public Water would likely have to spend about $88,000 to buy and install equipment and put up a building to fluoridate, Kelley said. After that, he said, it would cost about $15,000 a year to fluoridate.
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URGENT!
Does your faucet sourced drinking water contain ‘fluoride’? Know that the actual 'illicit chemical cocktail' that is ‘corruptly sold’ by phosphate chemical corporations to 10’s of 1000’s of government regulated municipal water treatment plants all over North America is an USA-EPA [Environmental Protection Agency] 'Regulated Potential Pollutant' of Air, Water and Land that is currently derived from primarily the Phosphate ore mining & processing industries ‘HAPS’ units [e.g. Hazardous Air Pollution Scrubbers], and as ‘Silicofluoride’ is regulatorily classified by EPA as a 'Class 1 ..'HAZARDOUS WASTE'.
Politically appointed USA-EPA highest management is primarily in ‘political complicity’ to allow Silicofluorides to be sold and metered into our precious USA drinking waters. However, recently around 7,000+ EPA professional CAREER ‘non-politically hired’ Scientists, Toxicologists, Chemists, and professional field health workers signed a Petition to EPA top Management requesting ‘fluoridation’ be stopped. Read the PR Announcement at:
http://www.world-wire.com/news/0830050001.html
On March, 2006 a 'balanced' distinguished dozen group of Scientists on a National Research Council/National Academy of Science Panel, after 3-1/2 years of their intensely studying recent 'peer reviewed' published 'Fluoride' SCIENCE as related to possible health endangerment issued a 507 page REPORT in bound book format concerning ALL that they learned and concluded with 'Recommendations'. One essential Conclusion was that the current USA governmental set maximum established levels for fluoride in drinking water are NOT Protective especially of children from 'fluorosis', and lifetime 'Bone damage' and other bodily damage! You can read the entire Report 'FREE' on Internet, or purchase a copy by going to:
http://nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11571
Learn more about the deceit of so called 'fluoridation' by reading the just published book by Christopher Bryson entitled, "the fluoride deception". You can view a summation of what Bryson describes by turning on your speakers and going to: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7319752042352089988&q=fluoride+Bryson&hl=en
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The daily swallowed DOSAGE of ‘fluoridated drinking water’ swallowed by especially Pregnant Mothers, and very SMALL CHILDREN is UNCONTROLLABLE! Read this article about Amer. Dental Assoc. and CDC [Center for Disease Control] WARNINGS to prevent Babies/Infants from getting ‘fluoride’:
http://www.mothering.com/sections/news_bulletins/november2006.html#fluoride
Many Cities in the USA have ceased, or voted NOT to ‘fluoridate’, especially in the past 10 years. See LIST of those Cities at:
http://www.fluoridealert.org/communities.htm
Finally, know that the AWWA [American Water Works Association] has reported in one of their ‘Water Conservation pamphlets’ that “Less than 1% of utilities treated water is ever consumed [e.g. swallowed] by human beings.” The rest goes to landscape watering, washing uses, and down drains.
So, think of this analogy to the AWWA statement…Would anyone purchase a bottle of 100 EXPENSIVE ‘medicant’ pills, take just one and throw the rest away into our habitats only to pollute our environments? Of course NOT!
Thus, would you think …‘Fluoridation’ is the Worlds Most economically Wasteful, ‘dosage swallowed - uncontrollable’, illicitly mandated usually w/o Public Voting, illogical ‘medicant’ delivery system on the face of this Earth!
NEVER SWALLOW ANY FLUORIDE !
[ Read the Warning Label on back of any fluoride laden toothpaste.]
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