LabCert Program Methods

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Water Extractable Phosphorus [PDF, 32KB] - Method for Water Extractable Phosphorus in biosolids. [March 2004]
Also refer to the Guidance Memo [PDF, 28KB] (3/10/2004)associated with this procedure issued by the Bureau of Watershed Management.

Modified GRO - Method for Determining Gasoline Range Organics, Sept. 1995
[WDNR PUBL-SW-140; PDF, 100KB]

Modified DRO - Method for Determining Diesel Range Organics, Sept. 1995
[WDNR PUBL-SW-141; PDF, 73KB]

List of Approved Pesticide Methods
[PDF, 373KB]

Monitoring for VOCs in Wisconsin -The 68 most common analytes.
[PDF, 10KB]

DNR Biomonitoring Manuals and information.
The State of Wisconsin Aquatic Life Toxicity Testing Methods Manual and other information on the Departments Biomonitoring Program.

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National Environmental Methods Index (exit DNR)
EPA and USGS online database of methods and procedures for both regulatory and non-regulatory monitoring purposes for water, sediment, air and tissues.

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program Surface Waters: Field Operations Manual for Lakes (exit DNR)
EPA/620/R-97/001. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington D.C., June 1997.

Fish Sampling and Analysis (exit DNR)
The purpose of this manual is to provide overall guidance to states on methods for sampling and analyzing contaminants in fish and shellfish tissue that will promote consistency in the data they use to determine the need for fish consumption advisories.

Evaluation of Dredged Material, Proposed for Discharge in Waters of the U.S. - Testing Manual, Inland Testing Manual (exit DNR), United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water (4305) Department of the Army, US Army Corps of Engineers, EPA 823-B-98-004, February 1998.

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Manual For The Certification Of Laboratories Analyzing Drinking Water (exit DNR)
Fifth Edition PDF (209pp, 4M) EPA 815-R-05-004, January 2005

Test Methods for Evaluating Solid Waste Physical/Chemical Methods (exit DNR),
SW-846, United States Environmental Protection, Office of Solid Waste, including updates and new methods.

EPA Whole Effluent Toxicity (WET Methods) (exit DNR)
Methods are guidelines establishing test procedures for data gathering and compliance monitoring under National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits.

Lake Michigan Mass Balance Study Methods (exit DNR)
Describes the sampling and analytical methods used in the Lake Michigan Mass Balance Study Methods Compendium. The compendium is organized into three volumes that describe sampling procedures used in the study and analytical procedures used by the Principal Investigators.

EPA CWA Analytical Test Methods Home (exit DNR)
The Methods collection contains all approved and other unapproved test methods for Clean Water Act testing. Also includes alternative test procedure approval and validation procedures.

Monitoring, Sampling, and Analysis, Office of Underground Storage Tanks, EPA
A crucial part of cleanup actions is accurately and carefully measuring progress toward cleanup levels by monitoring sites, taking samples, and analyzing these data to measure progress toward that goal.

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Index to EPA Test Methods, EPA (exit DNR)
Index to EPA Test Methods, 2003 edition, is also available in Portable Document Format (PDF).

Links to Sources of EPA Test Methods on the Internet, EPA Region I (exit DNR)
Links to various EPA methods including air methods, lead in paint, monitoring well sampling, etc.

Analytical Methods Developed by the Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water (exit DNR)
EPA Safe Drinking Water Act methods 300.1, 314.0, 314.1, 317.0, 326.0, 327.0, 331.0, 515.3, 515.4, 526, 527, 531.2, 532, 552.3, 556, and 556.1.

Recently Developed Methods from the EPA Office of Research and Development (ORD) (exit DNR)
EPA Safe Drinking Water Act methods 200.5, 321.8, 332.0, 415.3, 445, 521, 528, 529, 535, 549.2, and 556.

Statement of Work, Contract Laboratory Program, Superfund, EPA (exit DNR)
CLP analytical services are defined in Statements of Work (SOWs). SOWs provide the technical and contractual framework for commercial environmental testing laboratories to apply EPA CLP analytical methods for the preparation/isolation, detection, and quantitative measurement of organic target compounds and inorganic target analytes in water and soil/sediment environmental samples.

EPA's Field Analytic Technologies Encyclopedia (FATE) (exit DNR)
This online encyclopedia is intended to provide information about technologies that can be used in the field to characterize contaminated soil and ground water, monitor the progress of remedial efforts, and for confirmation sampling and analysis for site close out.

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