Too bad Salisbury is still decades behind in their mentality

(NaturalNews) Citing high costs that continually raise water prices for local customers, the Board of Aldermen in Buffalo, Missouri, a small town just north of Springfield, recently made the decision to stop fluoridating the public water supply. Members of the board explained that transporting fluoride chemicals is damaging city equipment and trucks, not to mention water pipes that corrode as a result of fluoride exposure.

The decision came after the health department in Dallas County, where the town is located, sent notification that it would no longer subsidize the costs associated with providing the fluoride and replacing damaged equipment. The department had previously covered half of the costs associated with the town's fluoride program, paying up to $1,000 per year to bring in the chemicals.

In April 2000, Buffalo residents voted to begin adding fluoride to the town's water. A few years later, in December 2003, the board determined that the program wasn't working and was too expensive. It agreed to end it once existing fluoride supplies were depleted. That decision was quickly reversed following a vote by the town's mayor, as well as an agreement by the health department to cover some of the costs. However, now that these subsidies have stopped, the fluoridation program will cease.

"It's an acid and it eats the pipes," stated a city engineer from the city of Union, outside St. Louis, about the nature of fluoride. Like Buffalo, Union's Board of Aldermen recently voted 7-1 to end fluoridation after injection equipment was destroyed by its use. "Employees are handling it and they don't want to be."

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