Fwd: FW: Fluoride Coming to Southern California-Action Needed

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Sandy Mintz

FW: Fluoride Coming to Southern California-Action Needed

 

 

 

Subj: 26 Cal Cities to Fluoridate Unless Californians Stop Them

2/11/2003 10:15:38 PM Eastern Standard Time

 

 

 

 

Metropolitan Board Adopts Policy to Fluoridate Imported Drinking Water;

Fluoridation Projected to Cost Less Than a Dollar a Family

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 11, 2003--Drinking water supplies for up

to 18 million Southern Californians will be fluoridated after Metropolitan

Water District's board of directors today adopted a policy that calls for

the cavity-fighting agent to be added to its treatment processes.

" At a cost of less than a dollar a family, the dental and medical health

communities believe fluoridation offers Southern California consumers an

additional level of public health protection, " said Ronald R. Gastelum,

Metropolitan's chief executive officer.

 

Gastelum noted that the American Dental Association estimates that every

dollar spent on fluoridation saves about $80 in dental health care costs.

 

" In the end, adding fluoridation at our five treatment plants represents the

greatest cost benefits for our 26 member public agencies and the people they

serve, " Gastelum said.

 

Metropolitan estimates it will take about 30 months to supplement the trace

amounts of naturally occurring fluoride in the district's imported source

waters from the Colorado River and Northern California to levels promoted by

the American Dental Association and national public health interests.

 

Gastelum, however, cautioned that actual fluoride levels consumers realize

at the tap will depend on how much their retail agencies blend Metropolitan

deliveries with local supplies.

 

Metropolitan is in discussions with dental health organizations about

covering the district's initial $5 million in capital costs for

fluoridation, Gastelum said. The California Dental Association Foundation, a

non-profit public benefit corporation, in cooperation with a statewide

fluoridation task force, has offered Metropolitan to pay for construction

and installation of fluoridation equipment at the district's treatment

plants.

 

Metropolitan's board has been examining fluoridation since Gov. Pete Wilson

in October 1995 signed a state law that conditionally mandates fluoridation

of any public water supply that has at least 10,000 service connections or

customers. Although Metropolitan was exempt from conditions of the law,

local public health officials continued to push for large-scale fluoridation

to be applied and maximize the financial and medical benefits of treating

municipal water supplies.

 

Most recently, seven public health officials representing the six Southern

California counties in MWD's service area urged the Metropolitan board at

its December 2001 meeting to have the district consider fluoridating its

supplies. The health officials testified that adding fluoridation at

Metropolitan's treatment plants was the most cost-effective method to

provide fluoridation regionally.

 

The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California is a cooperative of

26 cities and water agencies serving 18 million people in six counties. The

district imports water from the Colorado River and Northern California to

supplement local supplies, and helps its members to develop increased water

conservation, recycling, storage, and other water-management programs.

 

 

CONTACT: Metropolitan Water District

Adan Ortega, Jr., 213/217-5786; 213/445-9645, mobile

Bob Muir, 213/217-6930; 213/324-5213, mobile

 

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