RANGELY | The Town of Rangely will be the next local entity to decide if it wants to keep fluoridating the town’s water supply. The Board of Trustees approved a resolution Tuesday to present fluoridation to voters in the April election. The measure passed by a narrow margin in Meeker this month.
Rangely trustees heard from water plant operator Emily Peterson and local dentist Dan Myers. Peterson explained the well-documented history of dental benefits of…
Complaining about risk to water operators is s common tactic of fluoridation opponents seeking to impose their personal ideology against water fluoridation onto entire communities. The reality is that water personnel are educated and trained to properly handle numerous hazardous, undiluted, raw substances routinely added to public water supplies. It is their job to do so. If Ms. Peterson believes that she and her fellow operators are inadequately prepared to do their job in a safe manner then city officials need to address this by either replacing them with personnel who do understand and are qualified to do their job, or correct the deficiencies within existing personnel. Inability of water personnel to properly perform their duties is a problem with oversight, not with the substances they are required to handle.
Steven D. Slott, DDS