The Water and Deposit Laboratory analyzes all routine water, deposit, resin and fuel oil samples and does so with the shortest average turn around time in the industry.  This ability to get results to you quickly is made possible by a computerized sample log-in system and by the use of the latest available analytical instrumentation including an ICP (Inductively Coupled Plasma) Emission Spectrometer, and (EDXRF) Energy Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometer. Completed laboratory data becomes part of the overall custom data base, to which IWT representatives have immediate, on-line access to base program performance decisions.

The Analytical Services Laboratory processes all samples that require non-routine chemical, physical and non-destructive analyses and conducts investigative identification of product and field samples.  To perform these complicated procedures, the laboratory is staffed with chemists who have advanced training in these specialized techniques.  They have at their disposal the necessary analytical tools, including HPLC (High Performance Liquid Chromatograph), Gas Chromatograph, X-Ray Diffraction and X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometer.  These instruments provide information about the nature of samples so that better identification is possible than results provided by wet chemistry alone.  Thus, you benefit from our ability to identify the cause of problems and to arrive at solutions.

The Microbiological Laboratory conducts all routine and non-routine microbiological analyses of cooling water samples and provides required photomicrographic enhancements.  The laboratory possesses all the equipment and techniques required to determine bacterial counts, identification by specification, coliform analyses and relative population density (RPD) studies.  The results from the Microbiological Laboratory are used to select, implement and control microbiological growth with the most cost-effective program available.