78-10: Preservative Treatment of Cooling Tower Lumber a State-of-the-Art ReportPreservative treatment of cooling tower lumber has been considered a necessity for many years, but relatively few owners and specifiers of cooling towers appear to know what preservative treatment entails. More important, few seem to know what they are really getting when they specify preservative treatment in terms of actual protection against wood decay. Cooling tower failure can cost an industrial plant thousands of dollars in lost production in a