Water Analysis
We provide a complete water analysis service for our clients including project management, sampling services, refrigerated transport, testing, data management, and reporting.
Our testing covers the full range of analyses, from routine environmental pollutants through to priority pollutants, emerging contaminants, and endocrine disrupting chemicals (e.g., PFAS, dechloranes, chloroalkanes, antimicrobials and olfactory parameters). Our methods are set up to cover ground water, surface waters, untreated sewage, effluents, and leachates.
We have decades of deep expertise in water analysis having worked alongside several water utility companies on their Chemical Investigation Programme (CIP) testing, from CIP1 through to CIP4. We also work for several other clients ranging from consultancies through to the Environment Agency, Defra, Natural Resources Wales, and the UK Water Industry Research (UKWIR) body.
Our laboratories specialise in trace and ultra-trace analysis of organic and inorganic contaminants, and our site teams provide sampling and refrigerated transport of samples in compliance with various regulatory guidelines. The laboratories hold ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation for a wide range of water analysis parameters to comply with Environmental Quality Standards (EQS), the Water Framework Directive (WFD), the Ground Water Directive (GWD) as well as the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED).
Water Analysis
We provide a complete water analysis service for our clients, from project management, sampling services, refrigerated transport, analysis, data management, and reporting. This provides peace of mind as they receive high quality data within their expected timescales.
- Water framework directive and POPs lists
- Specialist trace organics
- Bespoke chain-of-custody and import licenses
Some typical pollutants we analyse include the following:
- Cypermethrin
- Hexabomocyclododecane (HBCDD)
- PFAS EU DWD list of 20
- PFAS UK DWI list of 48
- Trifluoroacetic acid (TFA)
- PFOS and PFOA to WFD EQSD levels
- Glyphosate and AMPA
- Steroids and hormones
- Surfactants including nonylphenols and octylphenols
- Pharmaceuticals
- Heavy metals total and dissolved
- Low level hexavalent chromium
- Low level mercury
- Flame retardants
- Antimicrobials
- Olfactory contaminants
- Chloroalkanes & Polychloronaphthalenes
- Routine Inorganics
- Tributyltin (TBT)
- Chlorophyll and phaeophytin
- Dechloranes & Siloxanes
- Phthalates
- PAHs and PCBs
- Endocrine disruptors
- Personal care by-products
- Insecticides
- Herbicides
- Fungicides
- Algicides and biocides
- Phenols
- Chelating agents (EDTA, NTA)
- Disinfection by-products (Nitrosamines, THMS, haloacetic acids, chlorate, chlorite, bromate)
- Perchlorate
- Triclosan
- 6-PPD Quinone
- 6-PPD
- Short chain chlorinated paraffins (SCCPs)
- Organic UV sunscreen filters
Our team also covers routine water analysis parameters and low level nutrients in sea water. Routine analytes include:
- Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD)
- Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD)
- Total Organic Carbon (TOC)
- Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC)
- Suspended and Total solids
- Ph
- Electrical conductivity
- Turbidity
- Sulphate
- Fluoride
- Chloride
- Chlorate
- Total and free chlorine
- Nitrite
- Nitrate
- Phosphate
- Ammonia
- Colour
- Silica
- Chlorophyll
- Bromate
- Bromide
- Sulphide
- Cyanide
- Oxygen Reduction Potential (ORP)
- Hardness
- Alkalinity
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