Professional Lead in Water Testing, Collected and Documented On Site
Lead produces no color, taste or odor in drinking water at any concentration. Professional sampling and analysis is the only way to establish whether it is present at a given tap and where it is entering.
Olympian Water Testing provides professional lead in water testing for homeowners, families, boards, managing agents, schools and childcare premises, property buyers and building owners throughout New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
Where Lead Enters Drinking Water
Lead enters through contact with plumbing components that contain it. Water service lines, lead tin solder at pipe joints, and brass throughout the supply path are all recognized sources.
Components in current use that can carry lead include faucet bodies, angle stops and shutoff valves, tub and shower mixing valves, hose bibbs, brass pipe fittings, ball and gate valves, backflow preventers, water heater nipples and relief valves, cartridge housings and pump wetted components. Fixtures manufactured to the lead free standard return measurable lead with regularity, so homes of every age warrant assessment.
How Lead Is Sampled
Lead sampling follows an ordered series of draws along the supply path rather than a single bottle. The first draw reflects water standing in the fixture and the branch line behind it, and each successive draw reaches further upstream.
Where stagnation is required, the client is asked to leave the taps undisturbed and the elapsed period is documented at collection. Outlet screens are left undisturbed so particulate lead accumulating there is captured.
Understanding Our Reporting
Our reporting identifies each sampling point, the analytical method, the reporting limit and the measured concentration for each draw in the sequence.
Reading the sequence together is what distinguishes a fixture contribution from one originating at the branch line, the riser or the water service line, and that distinction is stated plainly.
Thirty Five Years of Lead Work in This Region
Olympian Water Testing has specialized in this work since 1991, from five departure locations across New York City, with NELAP accredited laboratory analysis.
Olympian Water Testing provides professional lead-in-water sampling designed around the property, the outlets people actually use and the question being investigated. When appropriate, first-draw, flushed or sequential samples can help distinguish fixture-related lead from contributions associated with interior plumbing or the incoming service.
How Olympian works
- On site sample collection by our highly trained and skilled laboratory technicians
- Stagnation instructions provided in advance when required by the selected test
- Chain of custody maintained from collection through analysis
- NELAP accredited laboratory analysis
- Our reporting states methods, reporting limits and measured values
- Thirty five years serving New York, New Jersey and Connecticut
- Parameter selection determined through consultation with our consultants
- Five departure locations across New York City
- Reporting limits stated for every parameter selected
- Support available 24/7 for testing questions and scheduling
