Anchorage mayor turned off fluoride in city water for about 5 hours

[RandySF]

Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson had the fluoridation of the city’s water turned off for about five hours in October, according to a statement Tuesday from the mayor’s office. City code requires the fluoridation of Anchorage’s water supply.

Bronson decided to stop the fluoridation while visiting the Anchorage Water and Wastewater Utility Eklutna Water Treatment Plant on Oct. 1, according to the mayor’s spokesperson Corey Allen Young.

The statement from the mayor’s office, emailed by Young, comes three days after The Alaska Landmine blog, citing anonymous sources, reported that the mayor had interfered with the fluoridation of Anchorage’s water and inappropriately pressured the police chief. On Monday, Young flatly denied that any of the allegations happened.

But the statement sent by him Tuesday said Bronson ordered the fluoride turned off after water plant staff who handled the fluoride said it was burning their eyes and throats.

The union that represents the employees handling the fluoride, however, said it’s heard of no such complaints.

“We have not had a single report from a member who works at the facility that this was of concern to them or that they had been harmed in any way by adding the fluoride to the water system,” Aaron Plikat, business agent at United Association Plumbers and Steamfitters Union Local 367, said in a phone interview Wednesday.





https://www.alaskapublic.org/2021/12/14/anchorage-mayor-turned-off-fluoride-in-city-water-for-about-5-hours/

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. What if he fiddlefucked with other control systems?

This idiot ought to be charged with malicious intent to harm the health of users.

[Demovictory9]

2. Agreed

[Deuxcents]

3. I grew u in Dade county, Fl

It’s now Miami-Dade but.. when I was a kid, fluoride was in our city water. Even my right wing parents approved! Well..with 4 kids but.. even today, my toothpaste has to have fluoride.. it IS a health issue. Your teeth n your feet..take care of them.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

4. Fluoride. Apparently the original government conspiracy.

I'm old enough to remember ads on TV in the 1950s when a kid comes home from the dentist and proudly announces only having two cavities.

I also recall all too well living with the reality that cavities were a normal part of life. Then fluoridated water happened, and cavities dropped to almost nothing. My own two sons never had a cavity, although they did need braces. And fortunately we could afford to get them the braces. They wound up with lovely, beautiful teeth, something I've never had. This is not an "Alas, poor me" statement so much as a recognition of how things changed.

[Takket]

5. Is this a big deal? What could happen in five hours?

And why would anyone turn it off just because the mayor said so?