Pressure Treated Lumber -DANGERS

Steven Rowlett

Steven Rowlett

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Everyone needs to view this website www.ewg.org
There are very high levels of ARSENIC in pressure treated lumber. A 12 foot section of pressure treated lumber contains about an once of arsenic, enough to KILL 250 people. This information pertains to all of us. Take the time now to view the information on this site. This post is not to scare anyone, just inform them.
 
The good thing about that settlement with all the producers of CCA, Chromium Copper Arsenate, which is in most (over 90%) of all pressure treated lumber is that gives all of us an additional marketing vehicle to pursue the proper sealing of our customer's wood decks and fences. For anybody who has run into repeat customer's objections to getting their deck done again "so soon", simply pull out a copy of that USA Today article and show them. That should be enough to convince anybody, especially since it's the EPA that's telling them the proper way for encapsulate the CCA is through sealing. When they've got kids or animals running around, the idea that their deck could have that crap leaching into their soil is enough to make anybody nervous.

With the EPA coming after us for so long with headache causing waste water containment policies, it's nice to see them indirectly giving us a new revenue multiplier... :)
 
Ditto on the marketing aspect of CCA leaching. It came over our local TV station last night that by 2003 NO CCA is to be used. Period. I'm sure there are other chemicals available for replacing the chromated copper arsenate. Will be interesting to see the impact on us and how this unfolds. I think this will be a great opportunity for all of us.

Our local city government is doing their picnic tables and playground equipment themselves using city workers, but they are "sealing" it with polyurethane.

reed
 
CCA related links

Here are some links about CCA that may interest some of you/us.

http://www.preservedwood.com/safety/research_rosen.html

Here are some Links for CCA wood info.

http://www.floridacenter.org/ CCA Research Funded by the Florida Center for Solid and Hazardous Waste Management

Work by David Stilwell at the CT Agric Exp. Station
http://www.caes.state.ct.us/PlantScienceDay/1999PSD/arsenic99.htm
http://www.caes.state.ct.us/FactSheetFiles/AnalyticalChemistry/fsAC001s.htm

Arsenic Testing
http://www.arsenic-solutions.com/arstestkit.htm

Arsenic and Old Waste by Donald Bleiwas USGS
http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/mflow/op-0222-00/

Waste Age Article - Good Wood Gone Bad
http://www.industryclick.com/micros...ceid=2151&pageid=534&magazineid=121&siteid=27

Dep of Health Fact Sheets (CT and MASS)
http://www.state.ct.us/dph/Publications/BCH/EEOH/pressurtr.pdf
http://www.state.ma.us/dph/BEHA/DPHPTW.htm

CCA Info with many Links and Sources for Alternative Products
http://www.healthybuilding.net/index.html

Alternative Decking Material (Composites)
http://www.timbertech.com/index_home.htm
http://www.trex.com/
http://www.choicedek.com/

Other Woods
http://www.durablewoods.com/index.htm - tropical hardwoods
http://www.northernlumber.com/default2.html - pacific coast cypress
http://www.cedarworks cedar

Plastic Landscape Timbers
http://www.barcoproducts.com/landscaping/timbers.html
http://www.xpotentialproducts.com/
http://sourcebook.plasticsresource.com
http://www.plasticlumber.com/
http://www.selectechinc.com/


Gardens and CCA - Fact Sheet and Alternative Product
http://www.agronomy.psu.edu/Extension/Facts/Treated_Lumber.pdf
http://www.preservedwood.com/safety/research_rosen.html
http://www.envirolast.com/

Plastic Sand Box
http://www.world-playground.com/Sandboxres/index.html

The technology to produce arsenic free treated wood is available now

http://www.bbslumber.com/index.htm
http://www.wolmonizedwood.com/whatis.html#4

Good INFO YA'LL

Reed
 
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