Australia - Council claims it could cost $50m to take out fluoride

By JUDITH KERR

Feb. 11, 2013, 4 p.m.REDLAND City Council is claiming it could cost upwards of $50 million to stop fluoride being put into the city's water supply.Under the state government's Water Fluoridation Act, passed in November, councils withdrawing from fluoride are liable for all costs incurred including those by the water grid manager, Seqwater.

Redland Water and Waste general manager Gary Soutar said the whopping cost included a $45 million estimate to build a "reverse osmosis plant" on Heinemann Road, Redland Bay, to remove fluoride.Once built, the council would also be up for ongoing charges and would have to pay Seqwater to maintain and operate the plant.

Added to those costs would be an extra $7.5 million to "decommission" Seqwater's five fluoride administering plants operating within Redland city............

 $7.5 million to "decommission"?