I tried to follow advice here to use a dialectric union to join 3/4"
galvanized pipe to copper to repair a leaky galvanized pipe.

But, when I went to Home Depot today, they said they had to remove all
their dialectric unions in the entire state of California as of January
1st, 2010.

Can someone confirm what is going on? I checked two Home Depots and both
had that entire section removed according to the plumbing people.

Elmo wrote in
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I tried to follow advice here to use a dialectric union to join 3/4"
galvanized pipe to copper to repair a leaky galvanized pipe.

But, when I went to Home Depot today, they said they had to remove all
their dialectric unions in the entire state of California as of January
1st, 2010.

Can someone confirm what is going on? I checked two Home Depots and both
had that entire section removed according to the plumbing people.


Probably causes cancer if you eat them in CA. Harmless in other 49
states... unless you have a really small pooper..

I was thinking that they are known to cause birth defects in
women who smoke them.

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"Red Green" wrote in message
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Probably causes cancer if you eat them in CA. Harmless in
other 49
states... unless you have a really small pooper..

I tried to follow advice here to use a dialectric union to join 3/4"
galvanized pipe to copper to repair a leaky galvanized pipe.

But, when I went to Home Depot today, they said they had to remove all
their dialectric unions in the entire state of California as of January
1st, 2010.

Can someone confirm what is going on? I checked two Home Depots and both
had that entire section removed according to the plumbing people.


*Go to a plumbing supply and get the facts.

On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:22:32 -0500, John Grabowski wrote:

*Go to a plumbing supply and get the facts

I went back to Home Depot and they said California lead requirements
weren't met by the dialectric unions they stocked so they had to pull them
off the shelves.

Lowes confirmed that the dialectric unions must say "LF" (lead free) to be
sold in California after January 1, 2010.