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Copper earth electrode use "banned"?

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New one on me, looked at caravan/camp site yesterday and client adverse to use of copper clad electrodes as he is attributing the death of his Lime trees (Tilia oliveri) and Red Oak trees (I missed his Latin designation for these and couldn't find it) to the use of buried copper.


He knew his trees and I wondered if anyone else had heard of this?


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BOD
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    Copper is an excellent antimicrobial and a reasonably good fungicide (copper tape on roofs to inhibit moss growth is an example)


    I would have thought however, that the amount of copper leaching from a copperclad electrode would be minute (otherwise there would be no rod left)


    Where I grew up, there used to be plenty of land remediation schemes that had a lot of planting that died back due to residual copper contamination levels in the ground, but to be fair it was probably the worlds leading centre for copper refining back in the day - the contamination levels (of both copper and arsenic) were very, very high - enough to kill fish when introduced into man made ponds (designed for water run off attenuation.


    I think your client has a point, but a few electrodes are unlikely to cause significant contamination levels


    Regards


    OMS
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    Copper is an excellent antimicrobial and a reasonably good fungicide (copper tape on roofs to inhibit moss growth is an example)


    I would have thought however, that the amount of copper leaching from a copperclad electrode would be minute (otherwise there would be no rod left)


    Where I grew up, there used to be plenty of land remediation schemes that had a lot of planting that died back due to residual copper contamination levels in the ground, but to be fair it was probably the worlds leading centre for copper refining back in the day - the contamination levels (of both copper and arsenic) were very, very high - enough to kill fish when introduced into man made ponds (designed for water run off attenuation.


    I think your client has a point, but a few electrodes are unlikely to cause significant contamination levels


    Regards


    OMS
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