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Published on 08/04/1999 All articles from this issue

Mountain View receives funding to fluoridate its water supply

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Town Crier Staff Report

County Supervisor Joe Simitian, and Mountain View Mayor Mary Lou Zoglin recently accepted a $540,000 check from Fluoridation 2000 Work Group to cover costs of fluoridating Mountain View's water supply.

Mountain View was chosen by the Fluoridation 2000 Work Group as one of the few California cities to receive grant funding to cover the capital expenses related to fluoridation.

It will now become the first Santa Clara County City in the past 29 years to fluoridate its water supply. In November 1998, city voters overwhelming chose to have their water fluoridated with a 60 percent yes vote.

The Fluoridation 2000 Work Group is a collaboration of the California Department of Health Services, the California Dental Association, the California Fluoridation Task Force and The Dental Health Foundation.

While every other Bay Area urban county is substantially fluoridated, Santa Clara County has never been more than 12 percent fluoridated. At present, Stanford, Palo Alto, and the Evergreen neighborhood in San Jose are the only fluoridated water areas in the county.