Buffalo Water will add fluoride to city’s water beginning Tuesday [Video]

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — A major milestone for Buffalo Water customers — a truckload of fluoride was delivered to the Colonel Ward pumping station.

Buffalo Water Board Chairman OJ McFoy and Peter Merlow, principal engineer for the City of Buffalo Division of Water, announced the arrival Monday morning.

“We will be reintroducing fluoride tomorrow morning with everybody on site to make sure we are doing it nice and slowly,” McFoy said.

Buffalo’s drinking water has been without fluoride for nearly a decade. Over the weekend, the Erie County Department of Health approved the fluoridation process.

“We’ve been moving very quickly as committed to the public on this but doing this in a very safe and procedural and methodic fashion,” Merlow said.

Last year, we told you fluoride was taken out in 2015 for system upgrades. McFoy said the buffalo water board used a powder fluoride and wanted to make the …