USA - Carrboro and Chapel Hill’s water supply has not been fluoridated since February

Carrboro and Chapel Hill’s water supply has not been fluoridated since February, when equipment malfunction and human error resulted in an overfeed of fluoride at the Orange Water and Sewer Authority’s Jones Ferry Road Water Treatment Plant. Ted S. Warren AP

Fluoride opponents in Chapel Hill, Carrboro take fight to elected leaders

BY ELIZABETH FRIEND

Correspondent

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SEPTEMBER 07, 2017 6:30 AM

CARRBORO 

Anti-fluoride activists who felt brushed aside when OWASA canceled a public meeting last month took their fight to the Carrboro Board of Aldermen on Tuesday, lobbying elected leaders to throw their weight behind an effort to keep fluoride out of Carrboro and Chapel Hill’s drinking water.

The aldermen listened to 21 speakers, the majority of whom opposed fluoridation. Many spoke of health issues they linked to fluoride, including arthritis and thyroid problems. Others said drinking fluoridated water amounted to being medicated without their consent.

“Every time I pick up a glass of water, I’m being drugged, and I have a problem with that,” Carrboro resident Jackie Helvey told the board. “I think that you all should have a problem with that. I don’t know how anybody can look at what fluoride is and not see that it shouldn’t be in the water. To me, it’s an acid, it’s a poison, and I don’t want in my water.”...............