| Design feature |
Recommendations |
Objectives:
- Minimize losses of preservative chemicals from treated wood to the environment by providing adequate controls to ensure minimization of preservative drippage prior to removal to unprotected storage areas
- Ensure fixation of preservative prior to release to uncontained storage area
- Reduce the time required for fixation from that required for ambient fixation
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| General design |
- Consider integrated design provisions for
- area that is sheltered from precipitation, dust, debris;
- adequate air flow; and
- sufficient heat and humidity to achieve fixation.
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| Drip and containment |
- Area should have an impermeable floor and designed so that any residues may easily be cleaned up.
- Area should be fully contained with sufficient grade and an efficient drainage system to direct any free liquid to a collection and recycling system.
- Provide for return of fluids to treatment process with minimum dispersal from tracking by personnel and vehicles.
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