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Safe Drinking Water Act

Drinking Water Quality

The Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) regulates the quality of drinking water delivered by cities, towns and municipalities. It also regulates community water systems including housing complexes, schools and transient water systems serving more than 25 people. The SDWA requires the use of analytical methods which have very prescriptive quality control requirements. Alpha Analytical performs the following methods on-site in support of these regulations:

  • Volatile Organics by EPA Method 524.2
  • Trihalomethanes by EPA Method 524.2
  • EDB & DBCP by EPA Method 504.1
  • Haloacetic Acids by SM6251B
  • Inorganic Contaminants (IOCs)
  • Trace Metals by EPA Methods 200.7, 200.8 and 245.1
  • Secondary Contaminants
  • Total Coliform
  • Water Quality Indicator Parameters

 

For further information on the Safe Drinking Water Act, these links are provided as regulatory resources:

 

What Our Clients Are Saying

“Alpha Analytical has become our preferred laboratory for New Jersey due to their reliability in providing quality data and also superior customer service. Alpha has subject matter experts that have provided valuable training to our teams for a variety of different subjects including emerging contaminants, data usability, VI, etc. We greatly value our relationships with our Account Manager, David Boring and Senior Project Manager, Ben Rao. Our partnership with Alpha has gone beyond what we normally expect from a laboratory because of the trust that we have in our extended project team. ”