MIDDLETOWN, N.Y.—City of Middletown Commissioner of Public Works Jacob Tawil said that due to a machine input mistake, the Middletown water treatment plant had an overdose of fluoride in the water on Nov. 10.
During the city Common Council Meeting on Dec. 16, Tawil explained that a plant operator misplaced a decimal in a chemical control machine at the treatment plant, causing a significant overdose of fluoride in the city water. The incident was not reported as it should have been by the operator, and upper management at the Department of Public Works was not aware of the incident until Dec. 9.
