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the latest news happening at Sitelab Corporation. From new and
improved products to unique customer applications, stay tuned to this web page.
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TPH in Water Evaluation Study: Sitelab evaluated it's UVF-3100
analyzer by testing 'whole volume' NELAC certified, water samples
provided by Environmental Resource Associates (Arvada, CO).
ERA is a leading manufacturer of quality control and proficiency
testing standards sold to environmental laboratories around the
world. The samples contained spiked concentrations of GRO, DRO
and TPH in water. Sitelab correlated well to the other
laboratories who participated in the studies. |

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Subsurface
Environmental Solutions, LLC:
Is a Sitelab customer that provides
advanced site assessment services employing state of the art field
technology, innovative analysis techniques, and detailed planning. The
result is a site characterization data base specifically designed to allow
reliable strategic decision making and site restoration design, while
meeting applicable regulatory requirements. Visit subenviro.com for more details... |
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Target PAH Applications: Testing polyaromatic hydrocarbons has
improved using Sitelab's new UVF-3100D analyzer. The instrument is
fitted with special optical filters highly sensitive to Benzo[a]Pyrene and
other PAHs of concern typically encountered in coal tars, coal ash, creosote
and weathered fuel oils. Test results correlate well to the sum of
PAHs reported by fixed based laboratories using EPA Method 8270 by GC/MS. |
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Fingerprinting Contaminated Sites:
Not sure what your site is contaminated with? The UVF-3100D analyzer's
Target PAH optics are an integral part of Sitelab’s new fingerprinting method for hydrocarbon identification.
When used with the UVF-3100’s GRO analysis,
the fluorescence signatures exhibited provides additional forensic screening
data useful for delineating sites having unknown petroleum sources. |
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Hand Held
Analyzer:
Sitelab's new TD-500 instrument is a battery operated hand held
fluorometer useful for testing PAHs and TPH. The analyzer is highly
sensitive to hydrocarbons commonly found in crude oils, waste oils,
lubricating oils, heavy fuel oils and weathered petroleum products.
The TD-500 uses the same extraction and calibration kits to test soil,
sediment and water samples. See "Products & Services" for details. |
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EPA TRIAD Projects:
Brownfield sites
throughout the United States are benefiting from the use of Sitelab test
kits when implementing the EPA's Triad approach, where systematic planning,
real time measurements and dynamic work strategies
improve environmental site characterization. Redeveloping a
former power plant in Connecticut in 2003 is one such example.
EPA
Region 1 and their Triad contractor, Tetra Tech (Boulder, CO), published a
report. Click the link below or see the case study to
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Florida
Department of Environmental Protection Acceptance Letter:
The State DEP's Bureau of Petroleum
Storage Systems, located in Tallahassee, Florida, has accepted Sitelab's
UVF-3100 as a field screening device for the measurement of petroleum
hydrocarbon concentrations in soil and groundwater as a result of Sitelab's
performance during the U.S. EPA TPH in Soil evaluation study.
"The
Bureau, in accordance with it's Guidelines for Assessment and Source
Removal of Petroleum Contaminated Soil, hereby recognizes the EPA
verification test of the UVF-3100 as an alternative validation report."
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U.S. Navy
uses Sitelab in Operation Iraqi Freedom:
The Navy's Forward Deployable Preventive
Medicine Units began using the Sitelab UVF-3100A during Operation Iraqi
Freedom to assist in ensuring the safety of critical drinking water supplies
and screening soil at various base camps for the presence of PAHs.
According to Navy preventive medicine personnel...
"The turnaround time for
analysis of water samples returned to laboratories in the United States is
too long to effectively meet the Department of Defense's force health
protection goals. Sitelab test kits provides a fast, accurate mechanism to
screen for petroleum products and PAHs in drinking water and other
environmental media in the field." |

Disclaimer: This is not a U.S. Navy or Federal Government endorsement for
Sitelab or any of its products or subsidiaries. |
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Mapping
Plumes of LNAPL on a Large Tank Farm Site:
Are
you managing petroleum sites with subsurface plumes of free-product
oil? Need a fast, easy and affordable field method to help delineate
the contamination? This
news story features Sitelab
testing oils for their gasoline range (GRO) and diesel range (DRO)
content on a large tank farm site contaminated with Non Aqueous
Phase Liquids (NAPLs).
The proportions of GRO and DRO varied throughout the
site, providing helpful forensic information for the client. |

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Gold Mine
Sites in Yellowknife, Canada:
The Department of Indian
and Northern Affairs Canada (DIAND) is using Sitelab test kits to
investigate and cleanup old, abandoned gold mine sites throughout the
Northwest Territories. Most of the mines are contaminated by diesel
fuel once used to provide heat and power in the remote artic conditions.
Disclaimer:
This is not a DIAND or Canadian Government endorsement for Sitelab or any of
its products or subsidiaries. |
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Sediment Remediation at U.S. Navy Site:
A contractor working for the U.S. Army Corp of
Engineers used Sitelab on-site in order to clean up murky sediments
in a fire pond once used by the Navy.
The pond had been contaminated by waste oils, including a
recent accident involving a large spill of diesel fuel from an
abutting railroad yard. Engineers
paddled by boat and used a probe to collect borings on the pond
bottom, which were carefully drained and then tested for diesel range hydrocarbons.
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Environmental
Engineering Award to EPA SITE Program Contractor: As part of the
U.S. EPA SITE Program, under the
direction of Dr. Kumar Topudurti of Tetra Tech EM
Inc. in Chicago, Illinois, Tetra Tech performed the
first-ever comprehensive evaluation of field measurement devices for TPH
measurement in soil.
To make sure that the evaluation produced practical and
useful information for environmental scientists and engineers, Tetra
Tech developed and implemented a comprehensive experimental design
that was scientifically sound and statistically based. |

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U.S. EPA
Publishes TPH in Soil Evaluation
Report: In
2001, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency completed a performance study
called "Field Measurement Technologies for Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons in
Soil" by evaluating Sitelab and six other manufacturers through the
Superfund Innovative Technology Evaluation (SITE) program.
Stakeholders and project participants included EPA Regions,
Department of Defense, American Petroleum Institute, British
Petroleum, Chevron, Equilon (Shell and Texaco) and ExxonMobil.
The project took two years to complete and cost nearly $1 million
dollars. Tetra Tech Inc. of Chicago, Illinois, managed the
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LSP
& LEP 4-Hour Credit Training Course Available:
Are
you a Licensed Site Professional (LSP) performing work in
Massachusetts? Or a Licensed Environmental Professional (LEP)
in Connecticut? Need credits to renew your license?
Sitelab
has been State approved to provide a 4-hour continuing education
credited course called "Field Screening Petroleum Hydrocarbons
Using Ultraviolet Fluorescence Technology."
Call or email
Sitelab for details. LSP Course No. 1205, LEP Course No.
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Sitelab Receives Award by EPA Region 1:
In 1999, New England’s Environmental Technology Innovator Award Program had
chosen Sitelab Corporation and seven other winners from a pool of
thirty-five applicants, as representing New England’s most innovative
technologies. The selection process was administered by EPA’s Regional
Science Council. The council evaluated each application based on the
following criteria: (1) the ability of the technology to address an
environmental problem, (2) the ability of the claims to be verified, (3)
field trial evaluations and (4) innovativeness. |

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