Environmental Chemistry Services

GEL provides an extensive range of comprehensive analytical services, covering organic, inorganic, and specialized analyses. Equipped with precise instrumentation and stringent protocols, our laboratory can safely manage samples across a wide spectrum of matrices, including drinking water, wastewater, groundwater, soil, oil, sludge, air, filters, biota, fauna, food, hazardous materials, mixed waste characterization, and more.

Our services cater to a diverse clientele, spanning various types and sizes, from large-scale multi-year projects with entities like the Department of Energy and military to industrial testing and monitoring.

We approach each project with an unwavering commitment to delivering fast and accurate data analysis and reporting. Our reporting options encompass nearly 300 different electronic data deliverable formats, and we customize many of these deliverables to align with the unique requirements of each individual client.

We offer volatile and semivolatile organic analyses, employing methodologies such as SW-846 and EPA 600 for low-level volatile organics, utilizing a suite of GC/MS instruments.

Our capabilities extend to the analysis of pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), herbicides, as well as gasoline, diesel, and oil range organics, employing methods such as SW-846, EPA 600, and EPA 500. We utilize a combination of 7 dual GC/ECD and 6 GC/FID instruments for these analyses.

We offer specialty analysis of Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) compounds, utilizing 7 dedicated LC-MS/MS instruments.

GEL is equipped for the analysis of explosives and perchlorate, employing 3 LC-MS/MS instruments. We cover the standard SW-846 8330B explosives, including PETN and nitroglycerin, and have developed specific methods for 2,4-DNT, 2,6-DNT, 3,5-DNA, TATB, and tris(o-cresyl) phosphate.

We perform an extensive array of metal analyses, adhering to SW-846 and the EPA 200 series, employing a combination of 5 ICP-MS, 4 ICP, and 3 CVAA instruments.

Our services include an extensive TCLP area, designed to handle large projects falling under SW-846 1311, SW-846 1312, and California STLC protocols.

We also offer low-level mercury analysis through EPA method 1631E, utilizing 2 CVAF instruments.

Our capabilities include a range of supporting chemistry methods, including ion chromatography for anion analysis in line with SW-846 and EPA 300 methods.

We provide other general chemistry methods including but not limited to analysis of total halides, total carbon, phenols, and nutrients through a variety of wet chemistry procedures, aligning with SW-846, EPA, and ASTM methods.