Analyses include the following:

Organics

• Lab equipped to run 24 hours a day and 7 days a week
• GCs with flame ionization detectors (FID), photoionization detectors (PID), electron capture detectors (ECD) and thermal conductivity detectors (TCD)
• GC/MS units using ion trap and quadropole detection techniques
• HPLC units equipped with ultraviolet, fluorescence and diode array detectors

Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs)

• Solvents
• Industrial cleaners
• Dry cleaning fluids
• Light petroleum products
• Seven Gas Chromatographs and three GC/Mass Spectrometers (GC/MS) dedicated to analyzing samples for VOCs

Semi-Volatile Compounds (SVOCs)

• Industrial process chemicals
• Phenolic compounds
• Plastics
• Breakdown by-products
• Diesel range petroleum products
• Base neutral acid extractables (BNAs)
• Two GCs, two HPLCs and two GC/MS with a dedicated GC for screening purposes

Pesticides/Herbicides/PCBs

• Banned chlorinated compounds
• Nitrogen/phosphorus/ triazine compounds
• Carbamate insecticides
• Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)
• Four GCs and two HPLCs for this testing, along with a network of qualified subcontract laboratories

Non-Routine Analysis and Research Projects

• Formaldehyde
• Alcohol
• Glycol compounds
• Access to mass spectral libraries allowing us to identify unknown compounds by referencing their spectral mass against the EPA/NIST library with 50,000 reference spectra
• HPLC units capable of separating most organic compounds

Metals

• Inductively Coupled Argon Plasma (ICAP) unit - JY Ultrace 138 to prevent misidentification due to interelement interferences
• Perkin-Elmer Elan 9000 ICP-MS for very low detection level work
• Dedicated Perkin-Elmer FIMs Mercury Analyzer for measuring mercury to sub-ppb levels
• RCRA 8 and TAL list metals
• Rare metals such as gold and platinum

Inorganics

• Ion Chromatography (IC) used for analysis of common anions such as chloride, nitrate, nitrite and sulfate
• Multiple Flow Injection Analyzers using colorimetric techniques are used to test for nutrients such as phosphorus, ammonia, TKN, ortho phosphorus and contaminants such as cyanide and phenols. 
• Multiple wet chemistry techniques used for analysis of BOD, COD, alkalinity, pH, sulfide and total solids
• Sample digestion
• Leaching (TCLP,  SPLP)

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