BALRANALD Shire Council will halt the fluoridation of the town's water until community concerns are addressed.
The council agreed last week to hold off on installing fluoride dosing equipment until New South Wales Health returns to Balranald for a community meeting.
It will also invite a "suitably qualified person" to the meeting to provide an opposing argument.
The move follows a community poll which showed 370 of the people surveyed were against fluoridating Balranald's water supplies, and only 44 supported it.
While council management has previously dismissed the poll as inaccurate, Councillor Steve O'Halloran moved a motion at the council meeting last to halt fluoridation.
"People need to be properly informed," he said.
"We don't know the implications (of fluoridation).
"Some people have come here (to Balranald) particularly because there isn't fluoride in the water."
For more of this story, see Wednesday's edition of The Guardian (November 25, 2009).
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