Horowhenua started fluoridated on 11 December 2024
As at May 2024, no area in Horowhenua is currently fluoridated. Nowhere in Horowhenua has ever been fluoridated. A local group is working to keep fluoridation out of Horowhenua.
Horowhenua District Council correspondence regarding Mandatory Fluoridation
Letter Horowhenua Council to MoH 7 May 2024 – Requesting extension to start date due to legal uncertainties.
Letter MoH to Horowhenua Council 22 February 2024 – Update on Judicial Review of directions.
Letter MoH to Horowhenua Council 19 January 2024 – Confirmation directives still stood.
Letter Horowhenua Council to MoH 21 December 2023 – Requesting extension to start date due to legal uncertainties
Letter MOH to Horowwhenua Council 17 November 2023 – Update on directions.
Letter MoH to Horowhenua Council 28th March 2023 – Confirming agreement to extension of time to April 2024
Horowhenua Council media release 2 Dec 2022
Letter MoH to Horowhenua Council 3 Nov 2022 – advising directive likely for Foxton, Foxton Beach, Shannon and Tokomaru
MoH Directive to Horowhenua Council 27 July 2022 – ordering council to start fluoridation of Levin by July 2023
Letter from Horowhenua Council to MoH 1 July 2022 providing cost estimates
Horowhenua Council internal email discussing funding July 2022
Letter MoH to Horowhenua Council 3 May 2022 – Requesting cost estimates
Email Mid Central Health to Horowhenua Council March 2022
Frequently Asked Questions
Levin in the only township in Horowhenua that is fluoridated.
Hydro Fluorosilicic Acid (HFA)
The Fluoride is dosed at a level to achieve 0.9mg/L to town.
Five days a week as part of a standard monitoring programme.The fluoride is continuously monitored via the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition
(SCADA) system.
The analyzers are from Prominent and the Potable Water Treatment Plant operators
undertake any tests required.
The Levin Potable Water treatment Plant is not connected to the town sewerage system. There is a septic tank on site for wastewater. Process water, i.e., from the filters is discharged back to the Ohau River post settlement ponds.
No. There is no resource consent required for the addition of fluoride into the water supply.
We ordered two deliveries of HFA in 25/26 FY at a total cost of $7,495.96
There are no ongoing costs for implementation
Calibration standards and spare probes we spent $14,030 including GST. Of interest
$1,326.76 was spent on the Fluoride Free Tap. We cannot isolate out the time the operators spent on fluoride over other plant processes