Sheffield citizens shouldn’t be alarmed when they receive a letter informing them about elevated flouride levels in the city’s drinking water.
Public Works Director Pat Nuehring informed the city council Monday night that annual tests at Sheffield’s two wells revealed higher than normal quanties of flouride recently. Results showed the mineral at levels just more than 2.0 parts per million, and state law requires the city to inform residents about the development. Nuehring said last year’s tests came in at around 1.999.
“Any time you’re over 2.0 you get written up,” he explained. “If we were to hit 4.0, then we’d really have a problem.”
Nuehring said residents shouldn’t be concerned about the marginal flouride increase.
Read the full article in the March 6 edition of the Press.