Field study on timber piles used in Bangladeshi brackish waters revealed that untreated and pentachlorophenol treated piles drastically degraded by the attack of molluscs and pholads (marine borers). Adequately CCA-C impregnated (30 kg/m³ or 6% W/W dry oxide retention) timber piles can protect the attack of molluscs. It is very difficult to protect pholads which can invade naturally very durable timbers. Adequately preservative treated piles can be protected from pholads by hardening the initial surfaces by noncorrosive metal plates or by cement. Use of only dense and hard timber species would be a solution.

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