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Palm Bay council votes to keep fluoride out of drinking water and pivot infrastructure use
Summary
After a lengthy public-comment period and staff briefing, the council voted 5-0 to continue not adding fluoride to the city’s drinking water and directed staff to use the partly upgraded fluoridation infrastructure for liquid ammonia (for disinfection chemistry) if needed.
The Palm Bay City Council voted 5-0 to formalize a decision not to add fluoride to the municipal drinking water and directed staff to pursue converting the partially installed fluoridation infrastructure for alternative use, such as feeding liquid ammonia for disinfection purposes.
The vote followed a staff briefing by the utilities director that the city’s fluoride feed systems at its two water plants have been offline since 2016–2017 and that earlier work to restore feeding infrastructure had paused while staff considered other uses for the equipment. The utilities director told council the data the city had collected during reviews indicated the…
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