The Fluoride Action Network (FAN) is among a coalition of environmental, medical and health groups urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ban the addition of fluoride to public drinking water supplies.

The EPA has been served with a petition that includes more than 2,500 pages of scientific documentation detailing the risks of water fluoridation to human health. The amount of fluoride now in town waters and used by millions of Americans far exceeds the doses repeatedly linked to IQ loss and along with chlorine are producing neurotoxic effects.

The only, very best and safest way to treat town water supplies is with ozone. About 10 percent of towns and cities in the U.S. have been doing this for years now. Ozone, is a powerful, non-hazardous purifying agent. ozone is activated oxygen, it reduces algae growth, and corrosion in the pipelines, and treatment plant blow-downs are reduced by 90 percent. The costs for using ozone equipment is 50 percent less than standard practices, and so much more safe. Both our drinking water and wastewater treatment plant waters would be much improved, to the extent a person could safely drink treated waters before discharge in the Androscoggin River. Now that is great for our waters all birds and fish, and eventually the Atlantic Ocean where our lobsters and crabs live.

Ozone just plain works for the benefit of man, animals and fish. It destroys all pathogens safely. I could go on but I have made my point. I would hope council members, and the board of trustees of the water district, would implement ozone ASAP.

Bill Perreault,

Brunswick