NUMEROUS U.S. MECHANICAL FLUORIDE DISPENSER FAILURES

Similar malfunctions of fluoridation equipment have occasionally happened nationwide over the past 40 years, each accompanied by a careful news cover-up.

Fluoride dispensing machinery is not perfect. Human overdoses of fluoride can be found in such places as Annapolis, Maryland in 1979, when their water treatment plant dumped up to 50 PPM fluoride into their water supply, giving approximately 50,000 people toxic reactions. Officials kept it quiet for 2 weeks afterwards saying, "We didn’t want to jeopardize the fluoridation program."

However, Dr. John Yiamouyiannis studied the Annapolis situation after the spill, and reported his findings in a book, "Fluoride the Aging Factor". On page 63 of his book, he stated that more than 5 times the normal number of people died of heart failure in Annapolis during the week following the fluoride spill.

During a conversation in 1992, Dr. Yiamouyiannis stated that the actual cause of the Annapolis spill was a human error, done to cover up a mechanical malfunction that had occurred. Evidently Annapolis had a small fluoride day-tank which was supposed to fill up with fluoride and then the pump would stop. However, the pump malfunctioned and kept running after filling up the tank, and the excess fluoride spilled over into a large waste-sump before it was finally discovered. To cover up the error, the operator who discovered it deliberately pumped the entire overspill (1,000 gallons) directly back into the fresh-water supply.

The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA 1980:244; 7) had this short PR article on the above fluoride spill, meanwhile carefully avoiding using Annapolis’ name:

FLUORIDE. In what the PHS [Public Health Service] calls "the first instance of fluoride overexposure known to have caused serious illness in the 35 years since fluoridation of community water supplies was begun," eight patients undergoing renal dialysis (kidney bypass) in a Maryland community became ill and one died. Charles M. Wax, MD, assigned by the CDC to the Maryland State Department of Health, said investigation revealed that failure to close a valve in the community’s treatment plant led to the spilling of 3,800 Liters (1,000 gallons) of 22% hydrofluosilicic acid into the water supply. Further investigation, he said, "raised the possibility of widespread mild fluoride intoxication within the community as the result of drinking overfluoridated water."

Dr. Yiamouyiannis said that many fish in Annapolis pet shops died shortly after the Annapolis fluoride spill.

JAMA’s report was false, however. Public records show that contrary to the above PHS claim that Annapolis was the first of such a malfunction, the following 12 U.S. communities had had overdoses of sodium fluoride in their water supplies before that time:

Rome, PA 6/6/72

Stanley County, NC, 4/16/74

Lebanon, PA, 8/20/75

Seattle, WA 5/76

Stanford Univ., CA 1976

Syracuse, NY 3/29/77

Marin County, CA 1977

Harbor Springs, MI 1977

St. Charles, MN 1978

Los Lunas, NM 11/17/78

Fenton, MI 1979

Island Falls, ME 1979.

Further, since 1979 the following communities have also had fluoride overdoses in their drinking water supplies:

Nisqually Indian Res. WA 1980

Shaftsbury, VT 8/30/80

Potsdam, NY 1981

Morristown, NY 2/7/81

Saratoga Springs, NY 5/81

Pendleton, OR 6/28/81

Jonesboro, ME 10/6/81

Alameda County, CA 1982

Rouses Pt. NY 1982

New Braunsfels, TX 7/3/82

Painted Post Village, NY 12/14/82

Plattsburgh, NY 1/1/83

Marysville, MI 1983

Crown Pt. NM 1983

Grand Rapids, MI 7/84

Vancouver, WA 1/20/85

Elkhart, IN 2/5/85

Charleston, IL 1985

Sequoyah, OK 1986

New Haven CN 1986

Antigo, WI 1989

Hooper Bay, Alaska, May 1992 (one fatality, 290 toxic reactions).

In the July 84 Grand Rapids MI spill, 8 PPM of fluoride was reportedly dumped into that city’s water supply for more than a month, before being discovered and repaired. In the 5/92 Hooper Bay Alaska spill, up to 150 PPM fluoride was tested in the village water supply one week before the death of Dominic Smith, the near-death of his sister, and simultaneous flu-like symptoms experienced by over 290 villagers.

80% OF ILLINOIS FLUORIDE TREATMENT PLANTS WERE FAULTY IN 1989

In 1989 the State of Illinois had 1,931 public water facilities, 1,000 of which were fluoridated. The State Health Department gave awards out to each state water treatment facility that was able to maintain the recommended dosage of fluoride in their water for the entire year, but they only gave 115 awards out to the 1,000 fluoridation facilities that year, meaning that 885 treatment plants did NOT keep the fluoride dosages within required limits. (Crete Record, Crete, IL 9/21/89)

JUST A SMALL AMOUNT OF FLUORIDE DECREASES REACTION TIME

>From an article in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol. 67, No. 2, Pp. 230-238: Researchers in the Dept. of Psychology at Florida International University, North Miami, found a statistically significant delay (almost ½ second longer to respond) in visual response to a peripheral light stimulus in subjects given just ½ milligram of sodium fluoride. That dose is less fluoride than the amount you get from drinking one cup of coffee or tea made from fluoridated tap water.
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