Re: GBlist: legionella

["Carmine Vasile" <gfx-ch@email.msn.com>]

What about houses with plastic pipe or pex tubing & a low set point???
----- Original Message -----
From: Winston MacKelvie <winstonworks@sympatico.ca>
To: david blatt <dblatt@proaxis.com>; <greenbuilding@crest.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 8:50 AM
Subject: GBlist: legionella


> (This may have already been posted)
> Here's an interesting legionella fact that I just uncovered.
> Source is the USA copper center.
> "Copper is biostatic. That means bacteria will not grow on its surface.
Use
> of copper tube works against outbreaks of Legionaire's Disease, where
> bacteria grow in and spread from the tubing and other materials in
> air-conditioning systems not made of copper. Copper surfeces are
> inhospitable to the growth of legionella and other bacteria."
>
> Winston MacKelvie
> www.inventure.ca
> Winston MacKelvie
> www.inventure.ca
>
>
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