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US EPA approves 25 drinking water analytical methods

20 November 2009

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has determined 25 methods for sampling and monitoring drinking water, including some which have been developed by the US EPA themselves.

Approved methods include:
 

EPA method 334.0 - determination of residual chlorine in drinking water using an on-line chlorine analyzer;
 

EPA method 302.0 - determination of bromate in drinking waters using two-dimensional ion chromatography with suppressed conductivity detection;
 

EPA method 557 - determination of haloacetic acids, bromate, and dalapon in drinking water by ion chromatography electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry (IC-ESI-MS/MS);
 

EPA method 415.3, Revision 1.2 - determination of total organic carbon and specific UV absorbance at 254 nanometers in source water and drinking water;
 

Standard methods for the examination of water and wastewater: standard methods 9223 B-97 and 9223 B (20th and 21st Edition) to detect E. coli;
 

ASTM international - most recent versions of 14 ASTM international methods to the versions of those methods cited in 40 CFR 141 and 143;
 

AMI turbiwell method (SWAN Analytische Instrumente AG 2009a) using light emitting diode (LED) nephelometry to continuously measure turbidity in drinking water;
 

ChloroSense (Palintest Ltd 2009a) using electrochemical sensor that measures free and total chlorine using disposable sensors;
 

Modified ColitagTM (CPI International 2009) using a presence/absence method to measure total coliform.


 

 

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