PORT ANGELES — An appeal hearing on the city’s environmental review of its water fluoridation project has been postponed until city staff can study environmental issues concerning selling fluoridated water to Clallam County Public Utility District No. 1 customers east of the city limit.
The hearing was originally scheduled for Wednesday, but probably won’t take place until January or February, according to city officials.
PUD commissioners, in a November letter, said some of its customers were concerned about the amount of fluoride to be used in the fluoridation proposal.
The letter stated that varying concentrations of fluoride may subject Clallam PUD water customers to a dose of fluoride that is too low to provide tooth protection, and yet high enough to be a contaminant in the water delivered to their homes and businesses.
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The rest of the story appears in Thursday’s Peninsula Daily News.