Thursday, May 11, 2006
Will NSW Government put Fluoride Accident notification system in place?
The Hastings Safe Water Association
43 Willow Cresent PORT MACQUARIE 2444
Phone 02 6583 9622 – 0417 279 602
10/5/06
Sent to Hastings Councillors, Mr Stoner (MP) and Mr Oakeshott (MP) Mr Irving (NSW Health Department and all local Media for their comment and answers. We will forward any responses!
Will NSW Councils and the NSW Government put Fluoride notification system in place?
It has come to our attention that there is an early warning system now available to quickly notify all residents should there be a Fluoride spill or accident.
This was put in place because there was a major spillage of hydrofluorosilicic acid on Dec. 10 when 600 to 700 gallons used in the fluoridation process spilled at the company's Yellow Breeches Water Treatment Plant in Fairview Twp. Municipal officials and residents complained that they didn't receive proper notification of the spill or the restrictions on water usage.
We ask that Town Councillors, MP's, Health Department Officials and the Media please read the following Media Release in the interests of the community.
If officials are then happy to put the community at risk by Fluoridating the water Supply and not follow up a similiar emergency protocol then they will do so in the full knowledge that there is available technology. Should any similiar accident happen in any NSW town, and residents lives and health along with damage to the environment be put at extra risk, it will be because the NSW Health Department, the NSW Government and local Councils were and are prepared to force us to bear the risk .
Although the NSW Health Department use the spin that Fluoride as harmelss and natural please see below this article for a list of just some of the many accidental episodes of Fluoride overdosing.
Already in the US major Law firms are lining up see http://www.onlinelawyersource.com/fluoride-osteosarcoma/index.html . Residents and all Ratepayers would be the victims of both Fluoridation and the cost of litigation. We would be in a no win situation.
We urge you to consider the implications of the press release below concerning early warning and adequate responsible protection of the community.
We hope to hear your response to this and it will be noted that you have received this information.
Yours sincerely,
Therese Mackay
President of the Hastings Safe Water Association
East Pennsboro Twp. puts notification system in place
Sunday, April 30, 2006
BY JERRY L. GLEASON
Of The Patriot-News
East Pennsboro Twp. officials have a new tool for notifying residents of an emergency.
The SwiftReach notification system can place a telephone call with a recorded message to every home in the township within about 30 minutes.
"This gives us the ability to quickly notify our residents of a serious problem, like the fluoride spill in December at Pennsylvania American Water Co.," commissioner James Hertzler said.
The system will deliver a recorded message to home and business telephones, cellular telephones and pagers, or as an e-mail message.
Water was contaminated Dec. 10 when 600 to 700 gallons of hydrofluorosilicic acid used in the fluoridation process spilled at the company's Yellow Breeches Water Treatment Plant in Fairview Twp. The water company issued a do-not-consume advisory for 34,000 home and business customers in 14 municipalities in Cumberland and northern York counties.
Municipal officials and residents complained that they didn't receive proper notification of the spill or the restrictions on water usage.
A direct call telephone system could have delivered the notice to every home and business in the township, Hertzler said.
When the township tested the SwiftReach program on April 19, the computerized system used 700 telephones to make 8,057 calls in 28 minutes.
Assistant township manager John Pietropaoli said there are 6,713 residential telephone listings in the township, and 5,562 homes received a 90-second test message on the first run through the list.
"We had an additional 92 connections on the second run, calling the numbers we didn't reach the first time," Pietropaoli said.
The non-connections included lines that were busy, numbers where there was no answer, and people who hung up because the system didn't provide caller identification information.
SwiftReach Networks is a commercial company that contracts with municipalities to provide community notification services.
Township officials access the system through the Swift- Reach Web site, and program a message to be delivered to a list of telephone numbers.
"We can create the list of numbers to be called," Pietropaoli said. "We can call all of the residential numbers in the township, all of the business numbers, or both.
"We can also designate a specific area, a neighborhood, or even a given block on a street. We can create a call list within a 300-foot radius of a given address where there is a fire, a gas leak, or other emergency."
Calls are routed through local Verizon telephone lines as available, with the overflow going to out-of-area lines.
"The system automatically finds the number of available ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^lines for the calls it needs to make," Pietropaoli said. The township pays $500 a month in line reservation fees to keep the system operational.
"It's there as insurance in an emergency," Pietropaoli said.
JERRY L. GLEASON: 975-9782 or jgleason@patriot-news.com
Fluoride Accidents/Poisionings: (Click for more detail)
Fluoride is a powerful poison - more acutely poisonous than lead. This explains why fluoride is the active ingredient in many pesticides and rodenticides. It also explains why accidental over-ingestion of fluoride can cause serious toxic symptoms.
As documented in the Journal of Dental Research (Whitford 1987, 1990), there is enough fluoride in a tube of flavored children's toothpaste to kill an average-weighing child under the age of 9.
Each year there are thousands of reports to Poison Control centers in the United States related to excessive ingestion of fluoride products (toothpaste, mouthrinses, and supplements).
Malfunctioning water-fluoridation equipment, leading to excess levels of fluoride in water, has been another periodic source of acute fluoride poisoning.
News Articles - Fluoride Accidents/Poisionings:
Fluoride Dental Products -
Toothpaste label revs up some anxiety - Detroit Free Press January 13, 2005
Hazards lurk in toothpaste tube - The News Tribune, April 5, 1994
Fluoride Causes a Close Call for an Area Child - KAALtv.com May 18, 2004
Toothpaste: How Safe? - Washington Post June 16, 1997
Another Fluoride Fatality: A Physician's Dilemma - Fluoride April 1979
$750,000 Given in Child's Death in Fluoride Case - New York Times January 20, 1979
Water Fluoridation -
Marlboro water flooded with fluoride - Worcester Telegram & Gazette; October 25, 2003
Fluoride suspected as 23 in Dublin grow ill - Contra Costa Times; June 5, 2002
Norfolk could teach Wakefield about posting water alert - Boston Herald; August 9, 2000
Middletown Maryland Latest City to Receive Toxic Spill of Fluoride in their Drinking Water - Townsend Letter for Doctors, October 1994
Fluoride Blamed in 3 Deaths - Chicago Sun-Times; July 31, 1993
Mass Fluoride Poisoning Blamed on Pump, Government - News Tribune; July 2, 1992
Massive Fluoride Poisoning at Jonesboro Maine School - The Maine Paper; October 19, 1981
Fluoride Linked to Death - Evening Capital (Annapolis, MD); November 29, 1979
10 Years of Fluoride "Leaks," "Spills" and Overfeeds in the U.S. - National Fluoridation News; November-December 1981
Available Full-Text Studies - Fluoride Poisonings:
Akiniwa, K. (1997). Re-examination of acute toxicity of fluoride. Fluoride 30: 89-104.
Vogt R, et al. (1982). Acute Fluoride Poisoning Associated with an On-Site Fluoridator in a Vermont Elementary School. American Journal of Public Health 72: 1168-1171.
Hoffman R, et al. (1980). Acute fluoride poisoning in a New Mexico elementary school. Pediatrics 65:897-900.
Waldbott GW. (1979). Another Fluoride Fatality: A Physician's Dilemma. Fluoride 12:55-57.
43 Willow Cresent PORT MACQUARIE 2444
Phone 02 6583 9622 – 0417 279 602
10/5/06
Sent to Hastings Councillors, Mr Stoner (MP) and Mr Oakeshott (MP) Mr Irving (NSW Health Department and all local Media for their comment and answers. We will forward any responses!
Will NSW Councils and the NSW Government put Fluoride notification system in place?
It has come to our attention that there is an early warning system now available to quickly notify all residents should there be a Fluoride spill or accident.
This was put in place because there was a major spillage of hydrofluorosilicic acid on Dec. 10 when 600 to 700 gallons used in the fluoridation process spilled at the company's Yellow Breeches Water Treatment Plant in Fairview Twp. Municipal officials and residents complained that they didn't receive proper notification of the spill or the restrictions on water usage.
We ask that Town Councillors, MP's, Health Department Officials and the Media please read the following Media Release in the interests of the community.
If officials are then happy to put the community at risk by Fluoridating the water Supply and not follow up a similiar emergency protocol then they will do so in the full knowledge that there is available technology. Should any similiar accident happen in any NSW town, and residents lives and health along with damage to the environment be put at extra risk, it will be because the NSW Health Department, the NSW Government and local Councils were and are prepared to force us to bear the risk .
Although the NSW Health Department use the spin that Fluoride as harmelss and natural please see below this article for a list of just some of the many accidental episodes of Fluoride overdosing.
Already in the US major Law firms are lining up see http://www.onlinelawyersource.com/fluoride-osteosarcoma/index.html . Residents and all Ratepayers would be the victims of both Fluoridation and the cost of litigation. We would be in a no win situation.
We urge you to consider the implications of the press release below concerning early warning and adequate responsible protection of the community.
We hope to hear your response to this and it will be noted that you have received this information.
Yours sincerely,
Therese Mackay
President of the Hastings Safe Water Association
East Pennsboro Twp. puts notification system in place
Sunday, April 30, 2006
BY JERRY L. GLEASON
Of The Patriot-News
East Pennsboro Twp. officials have a new tool for notifying residents of an emergency.
The SwiftReach notification system can place a telephone call with a recorded message to every home in the township within about 30 minutes.
"This gives us the ability to quickly notify our residents of a serious problem, like the fluoride spill in December at Pennsylvania American Water Co.," commissioner James Hertzler said.
The system will deliver a recorded message to home and business telephones, cellular telephones and pagers, or as an e-mail message.
Water was contaminated Dec. 10 when 600 to 700 gallons of hydrofluorosilicic acid used in the fluoridation process spilled at the company's Yellow Breeches Water Treatment Plant in Fairview Twp. The water company issued a do-not-consume advisory for 34,000 home and business customers in 14 municipalities in Cumberland and northern York counties.
Municipal officials and residents complained that they didn't receive proper notification of the spill or the restrictions on water usage.
A direct call telephone system could have delivered the notice to every home and business in the township, Hertzler said.
When the township tested the SwiftReach program on April 19, the computerized system used 700 telephones to make 8,057 calls in 28 minutes.
Assistant township manager John Pietropaoli said there are 6,713 residential telephone listings in the township, and 5,562 homes received a 90-second test message on the first run through the list.
"We had an additional 92 connections on the second run, calling the numbers we didn't reach the first time," Pietropaoli said.
The non-connections included lines that were busy, numbers where there was no answer, and people who hung up because the system didn't provide caller identification information.
SwiftReach Networks is a commercial company that contracts with municipalities to provide community notification services.
Township officials access the system through the Swift- Reach Web site, and program a message to be delivered to a list of telephone numbers.
"We can create the list of numbers to be called," Pietropaoli said. "We can call all of the residential numbers in the township, all of the business numbers, or both.
"We can also designate a specific area, a neighborhood, or even a given block on a street. We can create a call list within a 300-foot radius of a given address where there is a fire, a gas leak, or other emergency."
Calls are routed through local Verizon telephone lines as available, with the overflow going to out-of-area lines.
"The system automatically finds the number of available ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^lines for the calls it needs to make," Pietropaoli said. The township pays $500 a month in line reservation fees to keep the system operational.
"It's there as insurance in an emergency," Pietropaoli said.
JERRY L. GLEASON: 975-9782 or jgleason@patriot-news.com
Fluoride Accidents/Poisionings: (Click for more detail)
Fluoride is a powerful poison - more acutely poisonous than lead. This explains why fluoride is the active ingredient in many pesticides and rodenticides. It also explains why accidental over-ingestion of fluoride can cause serious toxic symptoms.
As documented in the Journal of Dental Research (Whitford 1987, 1990), there is enough fluoride in a tube of flavored children's toothpaste to kill an average-weighing child under the age of 9.
Each year there are thousands of reports to Poison Control centers in the United States related to excessive ingestion of fluoride products (toothpaste, mouthrinses, and supplements).
Malfunctioning water-fluoridation equipment, leading to excess levels of fluoride in water, has been another periodic source of acute fluoride poisoning.
News Articles - Fluoride Accidents/Poisionings:
Fluoride Dental Products -
Toothpaste label revs up some anxiety - Detroit Free Press January 13, 2005
Hazards lurk in toothpaste tube - The News Tribune, April 5, 1994
Fluoride Causes a Close Call for an Area Child - KAALtv.com May 18, 2004
Toothpaste: How Safe? - Washington Post June 16, 1997
Another Fluoride Fatality: A Physician's Dilemma - Fluoride April 1979
$750,000 Given in Child's Death in Fluoride Case - New York Times January 20, 1979
Water Fluoridation -
Marlboro water flooded with fluoride - Worcester Telegram & Gazette; October 25, 2003
Fluoride suspected as 23 in Dublin grow ill - Contra Costa Times; June 5, 2002
Norfolk could teach Wakefield about posting water alert - Boston Herald; August 9, 2000
Middletown Maryland Latest City to Receive Toxic Spill of Fluoride in their Drinking Water - Townsend Letter for Doctors, October 1994
Fluoride Blamed in 3 Deaths - Chicago Sun-Times; July 31, 1993
Mass Fluoride Poisoning Blamed on Pump, Government - News Tribune; July 2, 1992
Massive Fluoride Poisoning at Jonesboro Maine School - The Maine Paper; October 19, 1981
Fluoride Linked to Death - Evening Capital (Annapolis, MD); November 29, 1979
10 Years of Fluoride "Leaks," "Spills" and Overfeeds in the U.S. - National Fluoridation News; November-December 1981
Available Full-Text Studies - Fluoride Poisonings:
Akiniwa, K. (1997). Re-examination of acute toxicity of fluoride. Fluoride 30: 89-104.
Vogt R, et al. (1982). Acute Fluoride Poisoning Associated with an On-Site Fluoridator in a Vermont Elementary School. American Journal of Public Health 72: 1168-1171.
Hoffman R, et al. (1980). Acute fluoride poisoning in a New Mexico elementary school. Pediatrics 65:897-900.
Waldbott GW. (1979). Another Fluoride Fatality: A Physician's Dilemma. Fluoride 12:55-57.
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