Re: NANFA-- Above ground pond

Moontanman_at_aol.com
Fri, 26 Mar 2004 16:17:25 EST

In a message dated 3/26/04 2:56:03 PM Eastern Standard Time,
jklepomis_at_sbcglobal.net writes:

> The threat from Pressure Treated wood is more in a class with things like
> asbestos. The threat isn't to the occasional user with brief contact, its
> for the manufacturer and the installers who use it day in day out. There
are
> "Brown Fields" throughout or nation which can never be used again for any
> purpose because of their past exposure to these chemicals. But I wouldn't
> worry about incidental contact.
>
This may be off topic but it is important, you can get chemical pneumonia
from sawing up lots of pressure treated wood. It happened to me so wear a mask if
you are going to saw more than a couple pieces.

Moon
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