ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    August
    E:,
    1982
    VILLAGE OF GLASFORD,
    V.
    Petitioner,
    ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
    PROTECTION AGENCY,
    Respondent.
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    PCB 82—42
    CONCURRING OPINION
    (by J.D.
    Dumelie):
    This variance authorizes fluoride
    in Glasford’s drinking water.
    levels of up to 4.0 mg/i
    An article
    in
    Science
    magazine of July
    2,
    1982 titled
    “Fluorides and the Changing Prevalence of Dental
    Caries’s by
    Dr. Dennis
    H. Leverett describes increasing rates of dental
    fluorosis among children in communities not fluoridating their
    drinking water
    (p.29).
    Dr. Leverett indicates that total fluoride
    is increasing
    in the diet.
    Because of this he feels that the 1.0 mg/i fluoride
    requirement recommended nationally in 1957 for drinking water oughb
    to be re—examined and may,
    in fact,
    be now too high.
    A series of articles in Environment in 1973 and 1974 by
    Prival and Fisher discuss “skeletal fluorosis,” which in an
    extreme case, can be crippling.
    The Board needs a study of total body burden of fluoride
    and on the prevalence of both dental fluorosis and skeletal
    fluorosis in Illinois
    I, Christan
    L. Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution
    Control Board, hereby 2ertify that the above Concurring Opinion
    was filed on the
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    Christan
    L. Moffett,
    Cler’k
    Illinois Pollution Control Board
    Chairman
    iinois Pollution Control Board
    47-483

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