Local well systems haven't used fluoride for several years.
The fluoridation of water may eventually be a thing of the past in Ridgeland.
The Ridgland Board of Ealdormen and Mayor McGee will discuss discontinuing adding fluoride to Ridgeland's water system at its Board meeting tonight.Mayor McGee said the city has not been adding fluoride to the water in three years thanks to a shortage of chemicals required to fluoridate the water. Public Works Director Alan Hart said the equipment would have to be replaced and estimated the cost at $160,000. The chemicals cost another $60,000 per year.
Ridgeland's leaders can not merely snap their fingers and make fluoridation go away. Mr. Hart said it would probably take six months for Ridgeland to formally discontinue fluoridation due to Mississippi State Department of Health regulations.
Health Department guidelines spell out the discontinuation process:
* The Health Department must make a presentation in person to the Board of Health. The presentation is limited to 20 minutes.
* Ridgeland must provide a public notice for 30 days and communicate its intention to its customers and the dental community.
* The Board of Ealdormen must hold a public hearing on de-fluoridation.
* The Board must provide a public comment period of thirty days. The city is required to allow public comments via telephone although emails and mail are allowed (but not required).
* The Ealdormen must vote on whether to discontinue fluoridation. If it votes to do so, Ridgeland must issue a second notice of the decision to its residents and customers .
Ironically, most local water systems have not been adding fluoride to their water systems for several years. JXN Water Manager Ted Henifin said Jackson has been adding flouride to surface water as the ground water system uses liquid chemicals. However, the wells serving South Jackson use bagged chemicals. Mr. Henifin said those have been in short supply because the only manufacturers are in Belgium and China. He said the well water has not been fluoridated since JXN Water began operating in late 2022.
Clinton Mayor Will Purdie said Clinton has not been fluoridating its water due to the inability to obtain chemicals as well.
22 comments:
Damn Russians started this shit.
Holy Cow. This is a huge deal. Would be the best thing Gene McGee has done in years.
Brilliant! Just brilliant!
Big big pharma will lose some money.
Yo Ridgeland, welcome to the 21st Century.
Fluoridation is a vast left wing conspiracy.
When Ridgeland's apartment dwellers along County Line Road start getting cavities they will sue.
Ridgeland has more dentist per capita than any city in the state. This is great for business.
I have a tankless reverse osmosis under-sink water filter system that removes fluoride, chlorine, and more.
Hopefully this will take a bite out of fluoride.
Reminder that Alex Jones has been 100% right since 1995 and IDGAF what the Obama appointed kangaroo court said.
Fluoride is literally poison and has always been about population control. The fluoride is supposedly diluted to a PPM far lower than danger levels but it accumulates in the brain and causes a type of calcification that leads to numerous diseases including dementia. Oh you need to hear it from cable news to believe it? Well, you will probably hear it but not until afree everyone who pushed this crap on us is dead from old age. Thankfully, there are enough sane people to make the next generation the first generation to be fluoride free! Now ban aluminum from deodorants and food storage ASAP!
Wow. I think it's safe to say what the best crazy bait is.
Flouride is absolutely horrible to be drinking. Yeah topically it may be good for your teeth, but everyone is practically retarded in America because we pump this industrial waste product into our water supply. It calcifies your pineal gland.
One of the City of Madison's wells had natural fluoride at about 1/2 of the recommended level. I don't think it is in service any longer and I don't know about the fluoride levels in the newer wells, but natural f,our idea is common in ground water.
Aluminum is not in deodorants, only anti-perspirants.
Dentists rejoice!
I have been going to the dentist for 31 years and he always told me to spit out the fluoride he put on my teeth and then he rinses and several times more and tells me to spit every time.
So how do y'all feel about toothpaste?
Please continue to use Deodorant and fluoride toothpaste. Have ya'll went to a public place in the hot months down here? (basically March-October) Some of ya'll need every Aluminum there is to control the smell lol
If the majority of these responses aren't sarcasm, then I'm surrounded by idiots even more than I thought. You people sound like bat-shit-crazy conspiracy theorists who have been listening to Alex Jones since infancy. You know, water can also be deadly if you ingest too much if it. Should we remove that from our pipes as well?
The COJ adds manganese to the water it provides its customers.
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