All Pelican Fluoride Series Premium Whole House Water Filters come with a 5 micron pre-filter system that helps protect your new filter system and your home appliances from the damaging effects of sediment (dirt & debris) build up. The sediment in city or well water can clog faucets, damage appliances and even change the taste of your drinking water. The pre-filter system filters down to 20 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair or 5 microns in size. Learn More.

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Fluorine is a natural trace element and exists in almost all soils. In elemental form fluorine is a flammable, irritating, and toxic halogen gas that is one of the most powerful oxidizing agents known. It therefore occurs naturally only in the reduced (fluoride, Fl-) form in combination with other minerals. Fluoride is classified as any binary compound of fluorine with another element. Fluoride compounds make up approximately 0.08 percent of the earth's crust. Fluorspar, cryolite, and fluorapatite are the most common fluoride producing compounds known. Fluorspar contains the highest percentage of fluoride by weight, as calcium fluoride (CaF2), of the minerals mentioned.

Perhaps the most widely known use of fluoride is its addition to public drinking water supplies at about one milligram per liter (mg/L) of a fluoride salt, measured as fluoride, for the purpose of reducing tooth decay. This is achieved at the municipal treatment plant by injecting or feeding a solution of hydrofluosilicic acid, sodium silicofluoride, or sodium fluoride into the treated water stream. It is the fluoride ion in mineral ionic form that occurs in water, bones, teeth, and public drinking water supplies. About 144 million people it was estimated in 1992 drink fluoridated water at levels ranging from 0.7 to 1.2 mg/L.

Some water systems with naturally occurring fluoride must treat their water supply to remove the excess fluoride to comply with the Safe Drinking Water Act limits. Children under nine years of age exposed to levels of fluoride greater than about two mg/L may develop a condition known as mottling or discoloration of the permanent teeth. In certain cases the teeth become chalky white in appearance. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has advised a secondary maximum contaminant level (SMCL) limit of two mg/L to protect against this aesthetic or cosmetic adversity from fluorides in drinking water. Further, federal regulations require that fluoride not exceed a concentration of four mg/L in drinking water. This is an enforceable maximum contaminant level (MCL) standard; it has been established to protect public health.

Exposure to drinking water levels above four mg/L for many years may result in cases of crippling skeletal fluorosis, which is a serious bone disorder resembling osteopetrosis and characterized by extreme density and hardness and abnormal fragility of the bones (sometimes called .marble bones..) When a community water system exceeds the MCL of four mg/L, it must notify each of its customers by issuing a public notice to those customers. This notice outlines the limitations and health effects from high fluoride levels in drinking water and points out home treatment systems and bottled water as possible drinking water source alternatives.

The Pelican Fluoride Series Premium Whole House Water Filter utilizes the highest grade BoneChar carbon available on the market which was designed/developed to significantly reduce fluoride, and known to help reduce heavy metals that may be present in the water supply entering your home. View Glasgow University known uses for BoneChar carbon.

The Pelican Fluoride Series Whole House Water Filter Systems are specially designed as an Up-Flow System that does not require any special process or instructions for replacing the media. Other Down-Flow Systems on the market do not allow for the media replacement as an option because the homeowner would have to have special knowledge or tools to complete the task. Many water filtration experts agree that down-flow systems often have channeling issues in the media making them less effective in filtering out chemicals in the water because the water is unable to reach the unexpired media.

It is important to understand how the carbon media inside the Pelican Fluoride Series Systems works; Adsorption: the process by which matter (chemicals) adheres to the surface areas of a solid adsorbent material (carbon media). In layman's terms the chemicals in your water are adsorbed into the carbon media on contact. The carbon media does not release any chemicals back into your water once they are adsorbed. We offer the replacement media as a more cost effective and environmentally friendly approach. When it comes time to replace the media, you are not throwing away a tank, fittings, or having to try and dispose of a complete system. Not to mention the cost of hiring a plumber to remove the old tank and install the new one.

The Pelican Fluoride Series Systems use an up-flow design and do not waste any water while filtering and softening/conditioning the water for your entire home. While other systems use a down-flow design requiring them to backwash once or twice a week wasting 100-300 gallons of water each time they backwash. The fact is that we cannot afford to waste one drop of water. Water is one the most important resources we have on earth.

The Pelican Fluoride Series Systems eliminates the need for an electronic head for backwashing because of its up-flow design. No moving parts means less maintenance and no service calls for damaged moving parts that render the system unable to filter your water.

	If you have a tankless hot water heater we recommend a 10 Micron Hot Water Post-Filter System to be installed just after the water heater.
	If you get red or orange staining (rust color) from your water, you may be interested in our Pelican WF6 Complete Water System to help soften your water and solve your staining issues with no salt!
	If you are on a well and have a rotten egg smell, you will want to look at our Chlorine Injection Systems for Sulfur.

Pelican Limited Lifetime Warranty on all filter housings, tanks, in/out heads, and the bypass valves against manufacturer's defects.

Pelican Water (“Pelican”) warrants to the end user (“customer”) that its tanks, valves, in/out heads, bypass’s, fittings and housings (“Covered Items”) will be free from defects in material and workmanship under normal use and service for the life of the system. No warranty is made with respect to defects or damaged due to neglect, misuse, alterations, accident, misapplication, physical damage, or damaged caused by fire, acts of God, or freezing.

Fluoride: Disposing of Mining Waste Through Your Body

The Human Costs of Forced Filtration

Published Monday, August 15, 2011 2:30 am
by John Rehill

BRADENTON - August 13 ended Fluoride Awareness Week and promotion of the documentary with numerous health experts and scientists describing examples of many maladies caused by intake of the phosphate mining/fertilizer industry's hazardous waste. The documentary is available for free viewing on line here.

The maladies from this forced pollution of your body include (but aren’t limited to) lowered IQ, impaired mental development (brain retardation) and dementia; damage to your kidneys, pineal and thyroid glands resulting in hyperactivity and/or lethargy, chronic fatigue and disrupted immune system; arthritic symptoms and digestive tract (gastrointestinal) problems. See the Fluoride Action Network for more information about professional perspectives on fluoridation and the countless catastrophic health impacts from dumping hazardous waste in our municipal water.

I’m sorry to break the news that those aren’t the only costs you’ll be incurring as one of the enslaved filtration and disposal dump sites for the phosphate mining/fertilizer industry. Unfortunately the free preview of the fluoride awareness video didn’t begin by explaining that approximately 50 years ago, the phosphate mining industry discovered an alternative to paying billions of dollars to dispose of the highly toxic hydrofluosilicic acid industrial waste product (also known as fluorosilicic acid) from producing phosphate rock fertilizer. That alternative was to SELL the hazardous waste to municipalities throughout the U.S. to be dumped into our municipal water supplies, generating billions of dollars of income for the industry on the backs of those citizens' health. An earlier source was waste from nuclear weapons.

This would be like your municipality paying you to pick up your garbage then dumping it in the local stream!

The Manatee County Utility Department confirmed that its residents are paying more than $86,000 annually (in addition to what incorporated parts of the county pay) for hazardous waste from the phosphate mining/fertilizer industry to be dumped into the municipal water supply. And this dumping has continued for many years. Such financial government waste sounds like a juicy morsel for the Tea Party!

How were municipalities throughout the U.S. convinced to pay the industry billions of dollars to dump its hazardous neurotoxin, described by Dartmouth College research scientist Dr. Roger Masters as "potentially the worst environmental poison since leaded gasoline, into our public water supplies and bottled water?" You’ll have to wait for my FLUORIDEGATE sequel for that mystery and intrigue.

Meanwhile, the short answer involves claims that forced “mass-medication” with this hazardous industrial waste product would prevent tooth decay. Despite these claims, none of the municipalities, agencies or dentists promoting fluoridation of water supplies contacted in preparation for this article produced a single peer-reviewed publication of results from any toxicological studies supporting those claims.

The lack of any support for these claims from published toxicological studies is the basis of a lawsuit filed on August 9, in the midst of Fluoride Awareness Week. The suit was filed against the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD), the largest water wholesaler in that area on behalf of millions of citizens and water consumers in San Diego, Los Angeles and Ventura Counties, California. The suit alleges willful misrepresentation and deceptive business practices by the water supplier for “delivering a hydrofluosilicic acid drug through their water system that has never been approved for safety and effectiveness, nor in the expected dosages delivered by MWD through retail water districts, either topically, systemically through ingestion, or trans-dermal exposures through baths and showers.”

The basis of the suit is that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is the only government entity with the authority to approve claims of safety and effectiveness for products intended to treat and prevent disease, but that the FDA has never approved mass-medication via fluoridation of the public water supply as a treatment for, or prevention of, dental disease. Jeff Green, National Director of Citizens for Safe Drinking Water and spokesperson for the Plaintiffs, summarized the suit as follows: "Don’t tell us, or the media, or the court how safe it is. Go tell it to the FDA through the evaluation process and get approval for the claims for the specific product you deliver, and don’t administer it to us topically, systemically through our ingestion, or through our skin from our baths and showers, without our consent until you do."

Yes, that’s correct - even if you spend hundreds of dollars buying a reverse osmosis filter to install at your sink or a portable Berkey Filter to remove this hazardous waste from the water you drink, you and your family still will absorb it through your skin when you shower and bathe. Whole-house filters to remove this hazardous waste from water you bathe and shower in are even more expensive and still won’t prevent you from being the hazardous waste dump-site of the phosphate mining/fertilizer industry. Your body still will be contaminated by fluoride if you ingest commercial beverages, food, toothpaste and other dental products.

And your costs and impacts don’t stop there. The surprising part of the Fluoride Awareness documentary preview was the Sierra Club representative’s comments. He failed to mention any of the countless environmental impacts of uncontrolled mass-disposal of this hazardous waste into our nation’s streams, lakes and oceans via discharges of fluoridated municipal water. The Sierra Club claims “We are America's largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization. Inspired by nature…” and that its magazine is “for people who care deeply about nature.” So where is the deep caring about nonhuman organisms in the water environments being used by the phosphate mining/fertilizer industry to dump this hazardous waste as municipal water discharge without any monitoring or regulation? Stay tuned for more details about your costs for forced filtration and disposal of hazardous waste from the phosphate mining/fertilizer industry and how you can become an abolitionist.

www.thebradentontimes.com/news/2011/08/15/investigative_reports/fluoride_disposing_of_mining_waste_through_your_body/

NEW YORK .Regulatory and water system data analyzed by The New York Times show that more than 49 million people in the US have consumed polluted drinking water since 2004, according to a report in the December 8 print edition of The New York Times.

Pollutants of concern included concentrations of chemicals like arsenic or radioactive substances like uranium, as well as bacteria often found in sewage, the report said.

Analyzing data from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other regulators and water systems, the New York Times reported: .More than 20 percent of the nation.s water treatment systems have violated key provisions of the Safe Drinking Water Act over the last five years, according to a New York Times analysis of federal data..

Fewer than 6 percent of the water systems that broke the law were ever fined or punished by state or federal officials. According to the article, which quoted current and former EPA enforcement officials who wished to remain anonymous, federal regulators were informed of violations, but in many cases, unless the violations would make sensational news stories or target big money, pursuing the violations were overlooked.

EPA spokeswoman Adora Andy, in response to questions regarding the agency.s drinking water enforcement, told the New York Times: .This administration has made it clear that clean water is a top priority. The previous eight years provide a perfect example of what happens when political leadership fails to act to protect our health and the environment..

The article also noted that drinking water chemicals .are linked to millions of instances of illness within the United States each year..

In response to the article, Water Quality Association (WQA) Executive Director Peter J. Censky said in a December 8 association statement, .Filtering systems in the home provide the highest technology available to treat drinking water. Home filtering systems act as a final contaminant barrier and can further purify water for drinking.. WQA is urging the public to consider installing home treatment systems. - Tuesday, December 08, 2009 http://www.watertechonline.com/news.asp?N_ID=73069

This Los Angeles reservoir contained chemicals that sunlight converted to compounds associated with cancer. The city used plastic balls to block the sun, but nearby homeowners asked why, if the water didn't violate the law. The 35-year-old federal law regulating tap water is so out of date that the water Americans drink can pose what scientists say are serious health risks . and still be legal.

Only 91 chemicals are regulated by the Safe Drinking Water Act, yet more than 60,000 chemicals are used within the United States, according to Environmental Protection Agency estimates. Government and independent scientists have scrutinized thousands of those chemicals in recent decades, and identified hundreds associated with a risk of cancer and other diseases at small concentrations in drinking water, according to an analysis of government records by The New York Times.

But not one chemical has been added to the list of those regulated by the Safe Drinking Water Act since 2000.

Other recent studies have found that even some chemicals regulated by that law pose risks at much smaller concentrations than previously known. However, many of the act.s standards for those chemicals have not been updated since the 1980s, and some remain essentially unchanged since the law was passed in 1974.

All told, more than 62 million Americans have been exposed since 2004 to drinking water that did not meet at least one commonly used government health guideline intended to help protect people from cancer or serious disease, according to an analysis by The Times of more than 19 million drinking-water test results from the District of Columbia and the 45 states that made data available.

In some cases, people have been exposed for years to water that did not meet those guidelines.

But because such guidelines were never incorporated into the Safe Drinking Water Act, the vast majority of that water never violated the law.

Some officials overseeing local water systems have tried to go above and beyond what is legally required. But they have encountered resistance, sometimes from the very residents they are trying to protect, who say that if their water is legal it must be safe.

Dr. Pankaj Parekh, director of the water quality division for the City of Los Angeles, has faced such criticism. The water in some city reservoirs has contained chemicals that become likely cancer-causing compounds when exposed to sunlight.

To stop the carcinogens from forming, the city covered the surface of reservoirs, including one in the upscale neighborhood of Silver Lake, with a blanket of black plastic balls that blocked the sun.

Then complaints started from owners of expensive houses around the reservoir. .They supposedly discovered these chemicals, and then they ruined the reservoir by putting black pimples all over it,. said Laurie Pepper, whose home overlooks the manmade lake. .If the water is so dangerous, why can.t they tell us what laws it.s violated?.

Dr. Parekh has struggled to make his case. .People don.t understand that just because water is technically legal, it can still present health risks,. he said. .And so we encounter opposition that can become very personal..

Some federal regulators have tried to help officials like Dr. Parekh by pushing to tighten drinking water standards for chemicals like industrial solvents, as well as a rocket fuel additive that has polluted drinking water sources in Southern California and elsewhere. But those efforts have often been blocked by industry lobbying.

Drinking water that does not meet a federal health guideline will not necessarily make someone ill. Many chemicals are hazardous only if consumed for years. And some researchers argue that even toxic chemicals, when consumed at extremely low doses over long periods, pose few risks. Others argue that the cost of removing minute concentrations of chemicals from drinking water does not equal the benefits.

Moreover, many of the thousands of chemicals that have not been analyzed may be harmless. And researchers caution that such science is complicated, often based on extrapolations from animal studies, and sometimes hard to apply nationwide, particularly given that more than 57,400 water systems in this country each deliver, essentially, a different glass of water every day.

Government scientists now generally agree, however, that many chemicals commonly found in drinking water pose serious risks at low concentrations.

- New York Times 12/17/2009 - http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/17/us/17water.html

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More than 20 percent of the nation.s water treatment systems have violated key provisions of the Safe Drinking Water Act over the last five years, according to a New York Times analysis of federal data.

That law requires communities to deliver safe tap water to local residents. But since 2004, the water provided to more than 49 million people has contained illegal concentrations of chemicals like arsenic or radioactive substances like uranium, as well as dangerous bacteria often found in sewage.

Regulators were informed of each of those violations as they occurred. But regulatory records show that fewer than 6 percent of the water systems that broke the law were ever fined or punished by state or federal officials, including those at the Environmental Protection Agency, which has ultimate responsibility for enforcing standards.

Studies indicate that drinking water chemicals are linked to millions of instances of illness within the United States each year.

In some instances, drinking water violations were one-time events, and probably posed little risk. But for hundreds of other systems, illegal contamination persisted for years, records show.

On Tuesday, the Senate Environment and Public Works committee will question a high-ranking E.P.A. official about the agency.s enforcement of drinking-water safety laws. The E.P.A. is expected to announce a new policy for how it polices the nation.s 54,700 water systems.

.This administration has made it clear that clean water is a top priority,. said an E.P.A. spokeswoman, Adora Andy, in response to questions regarding the agency.s drinking water enforcement. The E.P.A. administrator, Lisa P. Jackson, this year announced a wide-ranging overhaul of enforcement of the Clean Water Act, which regulates pollution into waterways.

.The previous eight years provide a perfect example of what happens when political leadership fails to act to protect our health and the environment,. Ms. Andy added.

Water pollution has become a growing concern for some lawmakers as government oversight of polluters has waned. Senator Barbara Boxer, Democrat of California, in 2007 asked the E.P.A. for data on Americans. exposure to some chemicals in drinking water.

The New York Times has compiled and analyzed millions of records from water systems and regulators around the nation, as part of a series of articles about worsening pollution in American waters, and regulators. response.

An analysis of E.P.A. data shows that Safe Drinking Water Act violations have occurred in parts of every state. In the prosperous town of Ramsey, N.J., for instance, drinking water tests since 2004 have detected illegal concentrations of arsenic, a carcinogen, and the dry cleaning solvent tetrachloroethylene, which has also been linked to cancer.

In New York state, 205 water systems have broken the law by delivering tap water that contained illegal amounts of bacteria since 2004.

However, almost none of those systems were ever punished. Ramsey was not fined for its water violations, for example, though a Ramsey official said that filtration systems have been installed since then. In New York, only three water systems were penalized for bacteria violations, according to federal data.

The problem, say current and former government officials, is that enforcing the Safe Drinking Water Act has not been a federal priority.

.There is significant reluctance within the E.P.A. and Justice Department to bring actions against municipalities, because there.s a view that they are often cash-strapped, and fines would ultimately be paid by local taxpayers,. said David Uhlmann, who headed the environmental crimes division at the Justice Department until 2007.

.But some systems won.t come into compliance unless they are forced to,. added Mr. Uhlmann, who now teaches at the University of Michigan law school. .And sometimes a court order is the only way to get local governments to spend what is needed..

A half-dozen current and former E.P.A. officials said in interviews that they tried to prod the agency to enforce the drinking-water law, but found little support.

.I proposed drinking water cases, but they got shut down so fast that I.ve pretty much stopped even looking at the violations,. said one longtime E.P.A. enforcement official who, like others, requested anonymity for fear of reprisals. .The top people want big headlines and million-dollar settlements. That.s not drinking-water cases..

The majority of drinking water violations since 2004 have occurred at water systems serving fewer than 20,000 residents, where resources and managerial expertise are often in short supply.

It is unclear precisely how many American illnesses are linked to contaminated drinking water. Many of the most dangerous chemicals regulated by the Safe Drinking Water Act have been tied to diseases like cancer that can take years to develop.

By Charles Duhigg, Dec 7th, 2009 New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/08/business/energy-environment/08water.html