Fluoride should be in the water supply in order to help prevent cavities, gum disease, and more.

Fluoride should be left out of the water supply. If you want fluoride you can get it, but if you don't want it you can't remove it.

Dave... agreed. It can be harmful from everything I've read, so why take the chance?

From the epa.gov website:
What are fluoride's health effects?
Exposure to excessive consumption of fluoride over a lifetime may lead to increased likelihood of bone fractures in adults, and may result in effects on bone leading to pain and tenderness. Children aged 8 years and younger exposed to excessive amounts of fluoride have an increased chance of developing pits in the tooth enamel, along with a range of cosmetic effects to teeth.
This health effects language is not intended to catalog all possible health effects for fluoride. Rather, it is intended to inform consumers of some of the possible health effects associated with fluoride in drinking water.

The whole idea of putting fluoride in the public water system is a little weird to me. Whether you think it's good or bad for you; how much of it is wasted versus how much is actually consumed? I don't have any stats, but based on my personal use of water from the faucet, I would say a very very small percentage is actually consumed compared to how much goes to wash clothes, dishes, people, etc. Seems like a waste. If I want fluoride I can go to the pharmacy and get it.

We should not be treating people through our water supply system. Chlorine is enough treatment for the water, not the people. The Hightstown water supply as diet water treats those wishing to diet. If teeth are a concern the brush your teeth with flouridated tooth paste. Floirides are harmful to your health which has been proven many times over by just saying it. No where In the Bible, the Koran or the Torah are
we told to fluoridate our water. In unflourinated water was good enough for Jesus. It is good enough for all of us. As to fluoridation being a communist or right wing Republican conspiracy, since both are similar in their aims of destroying mankind, it must be true that fluoridation is harmful to our health. Floiridaetion is a sin against God. Nature, and our bodies. We need to be free to starve, to be poor, and to be free of fluoridation. Flouridation is enslavement to chemicals. Our water should be a treat not a treatment as Arthur Godfrey would say when advertising cancer sticks. I vote for freedom against treatment in our water supply.

Diet water YES but fluorides NO on Hoghtstown's water supply system. Where is the proof that fluoride is not a carcinogen? We want cool clear water as on the song. Where us the music for fluoridation?

It is remarkable that this issue, debated at length, with public comment, before both the Board of Health, as well as before Council, is coming up again. After a great deal of public debate, and consideration by volunteer members of the Board, all their work will now be abandoned, and the task again addressed, because of a plumbing failure.

Is this the way local government is supposed to 'work'? How can a Council that has years on a still not ready workable taxi ordinance now take up an issue already once deliberated, because of a broken pipe?

Forget for a moment the fact that there no 'music' for fluoridating the water supply. Lets talk about dollars and cents. Children in the Borough who would have been told to use multivitamins with fluoride were not told to do this because the public was not informed of the fact that the water was no longer being treated.

Do you think there enough children to form a class action suit against the Borough, for dental costs projected to occur because of this lack of common sense? Compare this liability with the fact that each of our members of Borough Council cost us, the taxpayers, $3,600 yearly for their 'expertise' in managing the Borough's affairs. When asked about the failure to inform the public that the water was no longer being treated, the excuse was that the 'law was not clear'- it's a good thing that common sense isn't a matter of public law or our council members would clearly screw that up too.

Fluoride should NOT be added back into the water supply...If you read the water report that the Borough sent out for year 2010 when it was still in our water supply it clearly states the following description of fluoride:
"Erosion of natural deposits; water additive which promotes strong teeth; discharge from fertilizer and aluminum factories" AHH discharge from fertilizer and aluminum factories, yeah that's something I want to ingest!! not!! Also, if you read the article in the East Windsor-Hightstown Herald (i believe that was the paper's name) One of the counsel members actually stated that the reason why we don't have fluoride in our water now was because the pipe corroded!! Ummm from the Fluoride!! And people actually think this is good their their teeth???!! What because a government agency or the boob tube told you so...wake up people!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=LEZ15m-D_n8

http://m.youtube.com/watch?gl=CA&hl=en&client=mv-google&rl=yes&v=WFpbwsITZtI

The 20% who want Fluoride in the water supply should just go buy a filter to add fluoride to their water supply so the 80% of us who don't want it don't have to buy one to add it.