RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Mayor Danny Avula found out about the fluoride spike in Richmond’s water via a text from Henrico County’s county manager — not from his own team.

Staff at Richmond’s water treatment plant (WTP) failed to notify the Department of Public Utilities (DPU) of the pump issue that caused fluoride levels to spike in the water supply until seve… ...

RICHMOND, Va. — Richmond's system that adds fluoride to drinking water is now back online, city officials announced Monday evening.

A newly obtained consultant report sheds light on some additional concerns at the Water Treatment Plant that state officials believe played a role in what went wrong in a May boil advisory.

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While the city’s brief fluoride spike exceeded the EPA’s recommended level, city officials said that water samples at the treatment plant had returned to 0.63 to 0.7 milligrams per liter by ...

RICHMOND, VA. (WWBT) -Richmond’s Water Treatment Plant fluoride system is back online after it was damaged by the plant flooding earlier this year. On Jan. 6, an outage at the plant caused ...

An installation of a new pump at the Richmond water treatment plant caused "increased" and "unknown" levels of fluoride to temporarily flow into the water system, according to officials, but it ...

GOOCHLAND COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Goochland County has been testing its water daily since it was notified on Monday that Richmond added “unknown amounts” of fluoride to its water system.

Researchers found removing fluoride was associated with an increase in tooth decay of 7.5 percentage points, or 25.4 million cases, and cost approximately $9.8 billion over 5 years.

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