A modern laboratory – the most accurate facility of water quality management

Summary

The accredited Central laboratory of Ekaterinburg «Vodokanal» MUE is carrying out industrial laboratory control of the water quality in the public water supply and wastewater disposal systems in accordance with the requirements of the regulatory documents. The main tasks of the laboratory control at the water and wastewater treatment facilities are as follows – analyses of the raw and treated water quality, quality control of the supplied chemicals, evaluation of the treatment facilities operation at different stages, optimization of the process flows and selection of high efficient chemicals. The objects of the control are drinking water, wastewater, water from the underground and surface water sources, chemicals, wastewater sludge, sludge from the treatment facilities. The objects of the control are analyzed for microbiological, parasitological, virological, general chemical, inorganic, organic, hydrobiological and radiological parameters. The upgrade of the instrumentation stock is described; the information on the advanced analytical instruments used in the Central laboratory is presented.

Key words

control of water quality , domestic water supply , wastewater management systems , monitored object , analytical laboratory , instrumentation stock