The Edgartown board of health voted on Oct. 10 to act on a statue that could add fluoride to the municipal water system. According to water department superintendent Bill Chapman during a report to the board of selectmen, Edgartown currently has zero fluoride in its water.
“Some think it’s advantageous, and some don’t, and I have to oversee that the right procedures are taken, and that it’s holistically good for our system,” Mr. Chapman told selectmen Monday.
According to the state law, the board of the health’s decision to add fluoride to the municipal water system cannot become effective until 90 days after it is published in a newspaper, or until it is petitioned by 10 percent of registered voters and put on a ballot at town meeting.
“Voters should have knowledge of this intent and be able to weigh in on it,” Mr. Chapman said.
Selectman Arthur Smadbeck agreed with Mr. Chapman. He said he spoke with health agent Matt Poole about rescinding the board of health’s vote on the statute. If not, Mr. Smadbeck agreed, it should be something to be petitioned and put on the ballot at town meeting.
In other business, selectmen voted to allow Eversource to install a 35-foot pole on 6th Street. The board also accepted three checks for the Council on Aging — one for $100, another for $125, and the last for $400. The board accepted a $10,000 donation from the Betsy and Jesse Fink Foundation for the Martha’s Vineyard Tick Program.
A much more economical solution would be to make a deal with Eversource to add the fluoride to the herbicide spray mix – then even the people with private wells would not be able to escape.
Austria:
“Toxic fluorides have never been added to the public water supplies in Austria.”
SOURCE: M. Eisenhut, Head of Water Department, Osterreichische Yereinigung fur das Gas-und Wasserfach Schubertring 14, A-1015 Wien, Austria, February 17, 2000.
Belgium:
“This water treatment has never been of use in Belgium and will never be (we hope so) into the future. The main reason for that is the fundamental position of the drinking water sector that it is not its task to deliver medicinal treatment to people. This is the sole responsibility of health services.”
Denmark:
“We are pleased to inform you that according to the Danish Ministry of Environment and Energy, toxic fluorides have never been added to the public water supplies. Consequently, no Danish city has ever been fluoridated.”
SOURCE: Klaus Werner, Royal Danish Embassy, Washington DC, December 22, 1999
Finland:
“We do not favor or recommend fluoridation of drinking water. There are better ways of providing the fluoride our teeth need.”
SOURCE: Paavo Poteri, Acting Managing Director, Helsinki Water, Finland, February 7, 2000.
France:
“Fluoride chemicals are not included in the list [of ‘chemicals for drinking water treatment’]. This is due to ethical as well as medical considerations.”
SOURCE: Louis Sanchez, Directeur de la Protection de l’Environment, August 25, 2000.
Germany:
“Generally, in Germany fluoridation of drinking water is forbidden. The relevant German law allows exceptions to the fluoridation ban on application. The argumentation of the Federal Ministry of Health against a general permission of fluoridation of drinking water is the problematic nature of compuls[ory] medication.”
SOURCE: Gerda Hankel-Khan, Embassy of Federal Republic of Germany, September 16, 1999.
Norway:
“In Norway we had a rather intense discussion on this subject some 20 years ago, and the conclusion was that drinking water should not be fluoridated.”
SOURCE: Truls Krogh & Toril Hofshagen, Folkehelsa Statens institutt for folkeheise (National Institute of Public Health) Oslo, Norway, March 1, 2000.
Sweden:
“Drinking water fluoridation is not allowed in Sweden…New scientific documentation or changes in dental health situation that could alter the conclusions of the Commission have not been shown.”
SOURCE: Gunnar Guzikowski, Chief Government Inspector, Livsmedels Verket — National Food Administration Drinking Water Division, Sweden, February 28, 2000.
See statement by Dr. Arvid Carlsson, the Nobel Laureate in Medicine, who helped lead the campaign to prevent fluoridation in Sweden in the late 1970s.
God help us and guide us away from poisoning the people, the ground water and the visitors of Edgartown.
Is Poland Springs behind this effort to poison the island and sell more bottled water ? Imagine the incredible amount of plastic that will be added to the recycling centers when tens of thousands of more plastic bottles will be used by the people who refuse to drink ? Fluoridated water taste likes their is metal in the water too, so say goodbye to wonderful natural tasting Vineyard spring water. Fluoride is poison and just because the yahoo’s in Oak Bluffs decided to poison themselves does not mean the folks in Edgartown have too.
You can be assured that the bureaucrats and politicians who push fluoridation on us make enough money to buy their bottled water and are unconcerned about the extra plastic waste that will be generated when everyone has to buy bottled water to escape being poisoned.