THE CHOWAN HERALD
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Check Type And Treatment When Using Wood
By Johanna Seitz
It didn’t look like the room
of a man who promised that
a correctly made wooden
bulkhead or pier could last
at least 20 years.
One corner of Michael
Levi’s office at N. C. State
University was buried in
pieces of rotting wood. A
glass jar of ship worms
—the long, white marine
borers that can grow to
more than a foot long and
drive salty mariners to
tears—sat on a cabinet in
the other comer, flanked by
more chunks of riddled
wood.
But Levi, 35, an extension
professor of wood products *
at NCSU, sat in the middle
of the rubble recently and
expounded on the virtues of
y wood, particularly for use at
the coast.
“Wood is an excellent
material for walkways,
bulkheads or piers. It’s easy
to work with, long-lasting
when selected and designed
correctly, and aesthetically
very pleasing. I bet if you
took a random survey and
asked which people thought
looked nicer, hunks of
ebnerete or nice, round
wooden piers, they’d pick
wood. Wood is also en
vironmentally pleasing
because it is a renewable
resource and is much more
energy efficient than steel
or concrete. Wood uses the
sun, not artificial energy
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like oil or coal to be
produced.”
Hien why does the idea of
wooden piers or bulkheads
conjure visions of wormy
pilings, eaten to hour-glass
shapes and sagging in the
breeze?
“The biggest problem
with using wood is
ignorance in either the
selection of the right
material or the way the
structure is actually put
together. The major
problem, though, is that
people don’t buy wood that
is properly treated. A land
owner who wants to put in
a small pier will look for the
* cheapest material, maybe
some reject utility poles.
They won’t last. And if he
went with totally untreated
wood, the structure would
be destroyed within a year.
We’ve had samples eaten up
in seven months.”
Wood in the marine en
vironment has to withstand
currents, waves, fungi,
winds and two main types of
marine borers—the pill-like
limnora which attacks the
surface of the wood and the
long ship worm which chews
the inner wood. Only wood
that is treated with
preservative can last in the
water, Levi said. And only
wood treated with specific
amounts of copper
chromium-arsenate (CCA)
will endure salt water.
“CCA has only been
available in the U. S. for
marine use for a relatively
short period,” Levi con
tinued. “Creosote was used
before that with bad results.
So what happened was wood
got a bad reputation. Dip
thing to do when you’re
buying pressure-treated
wood is to say exactly where
you want to use it and to
specify that it be treated to
American Wood Preservers
Association standards for
marine use and branded or
marked with the stamp of
the treater. This is
something a lot of people
don’t think of when they’re
buying wood—although
when they shop for other
items they look for a
guarantee of quality.”
It is essential to say
exactly where the wood will
be used. Levi said, because
the level of treatment varies
considerably. Wood that will
be used above ground needs
only .25 pounds of CCA per
cubic foot, for example,
while wood used in salt
water needs 2.5 pounds.
N Wood that will be in fresh
water can be treated with
either CCA, creosote or
pental-chloro-phenol, he
said. Southern pine is the
best material for either salt
or fresh water use, he ad
ded.
Even if the correct wood is
purchased, structure can be
doomed to failure if in
correctly built. Fasteners,
for example, must be made
of stainless steel or heavily
galvanized steel or else they
will rust away, Levi said.
And structures must be built
to adequate strengths and
planted to proper depths.
The correct size, shape and
position of the structure are
also crucial. An incorrectly
placed bulkhead, for
example, can insure its own
destruction or cause
erosion at the lot next door.
“It’s a good idea to get
some design advice,” Levi
said, adding that tips will be
available from the Sea
Grant coastal engineering
advisory agent who will be
working on the coast after
the first of the year.
“With a little extra
thought in the very early
stages—selection of
materials and design—you
can save a tremendous
amount of money over a
very short period by
removing the need for
maintenance or repair,”
Levi said. Timber struc
tures generally cost less to
build also, according to an
NCSU engineer. With an
B«<ri>p i
nual checks for damage, a
well-built, well-preserved
wooden structure should
last at least 20 years at the
coast, Levi repeated.
Levi and five other
speakers from NCSU and
the wood industry will share
more of the do’s and don’t’s
about wood construction in
the marine environment in a
seminar October 7 and 8 at
the Blockade Runner in
Wrightsville Beach. The
seminar, which is sponsored
by the UNC Sea Grant
College Program, NCSU
Departments of Extension 1
Forest Resources and Civil
Engineering and the N. C.
Wood Preservers As
sociation, will speak
mainly to engineers, ar
chitects and contractors
who would like to know, in
detail, more about using
wood at the coast. But the
two days of talks and field
trips will also be valuable to
lay people interested in
building a pier, a bulkhead
or any other nearshore
structure, Levi said.
For more information on
the seminar, contact Levi at
the School of Forest
Resoureces at NCSU.
Registration for the seminar
is requested before the end
of the month.
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selection of four shows is
described as “outstanding.”
Two family musicals, “A
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“Shenandoah”, are
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side, “Absurd Person
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October 2 with “A Little
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CHAPEL HlLL—Robert
Wallace Worrell of Edenton
graduated in the summer
class at the University of
North Carolina here. He
received an A.B. degree. He
is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Kenneth J. Worrell, 4
Stratford Road.
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local committee will be
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