Man says he secretly lowered his town’s water fluoride for over a decade
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The longtime water superintendent for a small town in Vermont has resigned in protest after local officials ordered him to restore the town's water to the state's standard for fluoride levels-which he had been secretly and unilaterally lowering for years due to his own personal anti-fluoride beliefs.
And his righteous, five-page resignation letter offered yet another bombshell in the small-town water scandal that has made national headlines in recent weeks. He asserted that he had been surreptitiously lowering the town's fluoride levels for much longer than previously known-for over a decade rather than the nearly four years officials had previously disclosed.
Restoring the town's water to the state-recommended fluoride level "poses unacceptable risks to public health," the now-ex water superintendent, Kendall Chamberlin, wrote in his resignation letter, according to local media. I cannot in good conscience be a party to this."