Warm water soak treatments have been used successfully to thaw the log surface and facilitate debarking (Laganiere and Hernandez 2005), but in Quebec and a number of other jurisdictions, used pond water cannot be rejected to the environment without treatment (
QLMA 2001).
Each piece of lumber was graded before and after lumber drying according to the rules of National Lumber Grading Authority (NLGA 1996) by a qualified grader from the Quebec Lumber Manufacturers' Association (
QLMA), and reasons for downgrade were recorded.
Warm water soak treatments have been used successfully to thaw out log surfaces and facilitate debarking, but in Quebec and a number of other jurisdictions, used pond water cannot be rejected to the environment without treatment (
QLMA 2001).