Past Gisborne Campaigns
Candidates in 2013 election FOR ending fluoridation
22nd June 2013 The Gisborne Herald Fluoride advocates can’t back down now – Article link subsequently removed.
22nd June 2013 The Gisborne Herald Water fluoridation benefits all, but especially the poor
14th June 2013 The Gisborne Herald Decision to add fluoride made for greater good.
May 2013 – The campaign to stop fluoridation in Gisborne has started. See Fluoride Free Gisborne Facebook page and use that or contact to put in contact with the Gisborne group.
Sep 2005 – Fluoridation of the City Water Supply by Gisborne Council. Includes a historical overview, description of FANNZ submission to council, and Ministry of Health’s typical response (at odds with the concerns of the international scientific and medical community)
Frequently Asked Questions
Only the Waingake supply has fluoride added. This supplies Gisborne City and connected communities along the way (Muriwai and Patutahi pipelines).
Hydro Fluorosilicic Acid (HFA)
0.4 to 0.6 g/m3 of HFA depending on background fluoride in the Raw water.
Fluoride is dosed to achieve the Ministry of Health recommended range in the water supplied of between 0.7 and 1.0g/m3.
Five days a week as part of a standard monitoring programme.
Gisborne District Council, Sustainable Futures Team, Water Quality Science Officer.
The Wastewater Treatment Plant discharges wastewater to the Poverty Bay, 1.8km from the beach.
No. There is no resource consent required for the addition of fluoride into the water supply.
Approximately $9888.
No value provided because the fluoridation system is part of a treatment plant asset and operating cost is not discrete from the rest of the treatment facility operations.
Approximately $358.80 for testing consumables.
Cost $549.35 per tonne.
Approximately 6.054 tonnes of fluoride chemicals are dosed into the water supply each year.