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ALL ABOUT FLUORIDE

Fluoride is naturally present in all water. Community water fluoridation is the addition of fluoride to adjust the natural fluoride concentration of a community's water supply to the level recommended for optimal dental health, approximately 1.0 ppm (parts per million).

The Maximum Contaminate Level (MCL) for Fluoride is 4.0 ppm.  Fluorides are found mostly in groundwater as a natural constituent. At Dare County Water, the reverse osmosis membranes used for treatment removes any naturally occurring Fluoride so it is added to the finished water with a chemical feed system. The maximum Fluoride that these chemical feed pumps can produce is below the MCL for Fluoride.

All of the Dare County Water Treatment Facilities are required to send a monthly sample to the North Carolina State Laboratory of Public Health for analysis.

All of the results of the Fluoride samples sent to the North Carolina State Laboratory of Public Health can be viewed by going to the following web site: http://204.211.171.13/EnvironmentalSciences/Inorganic/TestResult.asp

Follow these instructions when you have entered the website above.

• Select Dare County Health Department as the County

• Under FILTER CRITERIA select ANALYSIS TYPE in the radial box

• Under SORT BY select COLLECTION DATE in the radial box

• Click SEARCH

• A box with ANALYSIS TYPE will be on the screen and select the F_Town and click SEARCH

This will bring up all of the fluoride analysis that the State Laboratory has performed on samples taken at the Dare County Water Treatment Facilities.

Fluoride Links (some links contain information which show both views)

• Discovery Health

• American Dental Association 

• American Dental Hygienists' Association

• Centers for Disease Control

• National Cancer Institute

• Academy of General Dentistry

• Chemical & Engineering News

Page last updated March 8, 2005