BenchmarkEA provides services for common matrices including drinking water (potable water), environmental water (non-potable water), and solids (soil and sediment).

(a) Drinking Water:

62-550 Primary and Secondary Contaminants:

• Primary Inorganics Primary Volatile Organics Primary Synthetic Organics Secondary Standards Radionuclides

Microbiology:

• Total Coliform E-Coli Heterotrophic Plate Count

Special Contaminants:

• Disinfection By-Products Unregulated 62-550 Groups Asbestos Dioxin Giardia and Cryptosporidium Lead and Copper Rule

(b) Environmental Water:

• Full analytical services are available for surface water, groundwater, and wastewater. In addition, the laboratory performs a range of specialty analyses, mainly for surface water.

Routine Analyses:

• Physical properties Nutrients Minerals Metals Microbiology Organics 503 Sludge

Specialty Analyses:

• Copper and Lead in saline water by SM 3113B MIBK extraction.
• Low level MDL’s for nutrients in surface water. Example: Ammonia MDL is 0.006 mg/L.
• Chlorophyll a (corrected). EPA 445.0.
• Chlorophyll a, b, c SM 10200H
• Anions, including fluoride, by ion chromatography. EPA 300.0.
• Enterococci EPA 1600

(c) Solids and Sediment:

• Metals Nutrients Elutriate Metals Fecal Coliform