PORT ANGELES, Wash. — Voters in Port Angeles likely will decide in November whether the city should stop adding fluoride to the city’s water system after doing so for nearly a decade.
The Port Angeles Daily News reports the Port Angeles City Council decided Tuesday night in a 4-3 vote to place a non-binding measure on the Nov. 3 ballot. It will ask voters whether to continue adding fluoride, a mineral in water and soil, to the city’s water system.
Council members are posing the measure ahead of a decision they have to make in May, when the city’s 10-year fluoridation contract with the Washington State Dental Foundation expires.