Endyne has a broad and diverse range of project experience ranging from the analysis of drinking water to monitoring large scale subsurface remediation projects. Examples of the types of projects in which Endyne has participated include: Hazardous waste characterization, Industrial and Municipal discharge compliance, Phase II/V Federal drinking water compliance, Landfill monitoring, Industrial hygiene testing, Underground storage tank testing, Sludge Land application studies, Dairy waste testing, TCLP/Priority Pollutant analyses and much more.

Quality Control/Quality Assurance

Each analysis is of paramount importance to the Laboratory; and, as such, each analysis is subject to a rigorous QA/QC procedure. The Laboratory’s industry standard QA/QC plan includes analysis of QC samples, spikes, duplicates and blanks to insure data quality.

The Laboratory maintains a variety of certifications in Vermont, New Hampshire, and New York. In accordance with certification requirements, the laboratory participates biannually in several EPA sponsored blind performance evaluation studies. Further, the Laboratory is routinely visited by Certification Officers to review laboratory procedures and operations first hand.

Capabilities

Endyne is truly a full-service Laboratory and maintains a staff of 18 professionals in a modern 6000 square foot facility. The Laboratory is equipped with state of the art instrumentation in each of the three divisions of the Laboratory. The Organics Laboratory is equipped with several Hewlett-Packard GC, GC/MS and HPLC systems for the analysis of environmentally significant organic compounds. Available GC detectors include: MS, ECD, FID and PID. The Laboratory routinely processes samples for EPA 8000 and 600 series including: 8020, 8100, 8260, 8270, 601, 602, 608, 610 and 625. The Laboratory also operates a field portable GC for remote field operations.

The Metals Analysis Laboratory is equipped with a Graphite Furnace Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer (GFAA) and a Leeman Labs Sequential Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrophotometer (ICP) for the analysis of metal species. The Laboratory processes samples in accordance with EPA methods 6010 and 200.7 for the ICP, and SM 3113B and 200 Series for the GFAA.

The Inorganic Laboratory, or wet lab, is equipped with all the instrumentation necessary to perform gravimetric, titrimetric and spectrophotometric assays. The Laboratory has been performing all the testing required under the NPDES discharge requirements since 1987.

Laboratory QA/QC Policy Statement

Each individual analysis that is performed by Endyne is of critical importance to the laboratory. It is thus imperative that Endyne be able to assure the validity of each result that is reported. To this end, Endyne observes the QA\QC protocol detailed below. In summary, the strategy consists of:

1. Participation in NELAP approved Performance Evaluation Tests for both drinking water and waste water.

2. Calibration verification standards analyzed daily.

3. Analysis of independent QC standards every 10 samples and continued charting of this data to define method precision and accuracy.

4. Monthly performance of intra-laboratory performance tests.

5. Duplicate laboratory analyses every 20 samples.

6. Analysis of matrix spike samples every 20 samples.

7. Analysis of laboratory blanks every 20 samples.

8. For appropriate methods, surrogate analytes are evaluated to monitor the performance of each individual analysis.

9. Review of calculations from data and checking of reported values.