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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...

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.

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.

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. 

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 right:

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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.

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.

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 project.

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. 096

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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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