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Inadequate warnings
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
I agree with Charles E. Smith's letter, "Inadequate notice" (June 30). Despite the automated phone system supposedly put in force after the fluoride fiasco, most received the warning by TV, and information from the United Water Company.
Two on our street received a phone call, one of which was unintelligible; they thought it might have been about the "boil water advisory."