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Arsenic-Wood Ban Slips Into Place

Credit Pacific Service Union Starting Friday, when someone called Marine Lumber and Piling Company in Barnegat to request pressure-treated lumber, General Manager Paul Taylor made sure to inquire about its intended purpose. Now that builders can no longer use the popular product for upland construction, Taylor checked whether customers planned to use it for docks and bulkheads rather than decks and gazebos.

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Credit First Service Union "I used to sell it to anybody who wanted it, but now I have to ask questions," said Taylor, who only sells the variant of the product containing arsenic.

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Card Credit Mobile Service Under a voluntary agreement with the federal Environmental Protection Agency, contractors will no longer use pressure-treated wood created with arsenic, commonly known as CCA. For decades, arsenic, a known carcinogen, was the active ingredient in giving pressure-treated wood its outdoor durability.

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Card Credit Discover Service Instead, builders will switch to pressure-treated wood made with copper.

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Credit Public Service Union At the same time, the marine construction industry will stick with the arsenic variant because copper, according to Fred Soper, a 28-year-old estimator for Butyric Bulkheading in Manahawkin, is nowhere near as rugged when salt water is involved.

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Card Credit Processing Service Also, oceangoing worms known as borers eat through pressure-treated wood created with copper, but mostly shun the arsenic variety.

Center Credit Service Union "Copper will not stand up to ocean conditions," Soper said.

Card Credit Service Wireless On Friday, workers at Universal Supply Co. in Manahawkin, like in other Universal outlets in southern New Jersey, put the old CCA pressure-treated wood on trucks bound for the chain's Hammonton shop. However, the reason for this had nothing to do with environmental concerns about arsenic.

Credit Security Service Union The copper-composed product has a light green tint, whereas the arsenic variant is darker.

Credit Report Service "You can't start a job with one type and then finish with another," said Bob Materazzi, a manager at the shop. "It wouldn't look good with different colors."

Blogspot Com Christian It seemed that local contractors didn't care whether they used the new copper-composed wood or the old arsenic planks.

Christian Counseling Credit Not a single contractor who purchased pressure-treated lumber at Universal on Friday expressed a preference for the environmentally friendly wood over its predecessor. So the staff sold the arsenic variant to deplete the remaining stock, Materazzi said.

Credit Federal Service Union Nearby, at Woodhaven Lumber & Millwork, Marty Genaro, of Autumnwood Landscaping in Bergen County, related how his cousin's daughter got sick after a pressure-treated wood splinter became imbedded in her hand.

Credit Monitoring Service "They couldn't figure out what was wrong with her, so they did some tests and examinations," Genaro said. "The doctor must have known, because he asked, 'Is it pressure-treated?' That's when I became aware that there were problems with the product."

Credit Division Service Since then, Genaro, who also builds decks, has advised clients to steer clear of arsenic-tinged wood.

Card Credit Online Service While Genaro spoke, Joseph Adametz, a 73-year-old construction veteran who owned a drywall business for four decades, listened. Afterward, Adametz downplayed the danger of using arsenic wood.

Consumer Counseling Credit Inc "I worked a lot with it over the years and never had a problem," he said. "In the old days, we mixed drywall compound with our hands. That stuff had asbestos in it, and look at me. I'm as healthy as a bug."

Card Credit Fleet Service Still, Adametz conceded that he knew of colleagues who had become sick because of an arsenic-laced splinter.

Card Consolidation Credit In the end, the most important piece of the story may concern CCAs peculiar durability in ocean conditions.

Credit Free Online Report Now that CCA is banned for upland projects, some figure it is only a matter of time before the public pushes for its prohibition in marine construction, too.

Credit Federal First Service "As soon as the public's perception is that CCA is bad and there's a replacement for it, they're going to want (the replacement)," Taylor said.

Consumer Credit Service Soper said this would prove disastrous because copper didn't work in the ocean and other alternatives to CCA were more than 50 percent more expensive. Should CCA be banned for marine uses, he said, the cost of maintaining and building docks and bulkheads could double.

Center Credit Family Service "It's going to change the business," Soper said. "It's going to get to a point where people will not want to own waterfront property because it will be too expensive to maintain it."

Credit Reporting Service By Mike Jaccarino
The Press of Atlantic City - 1/3/2004

Topic: Toxics

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