The chromatography section uses gas chromatographs (GC) to quantify a wide variety of organic contaminants.  By combining a variety of sample introduction techniques, sensitive and precise quantitation of many organic contaminants can be efficiently accomplished.  The use of chromatographic separation techniques with selective detectors can achieve low parts per billion detection limits for many organic compounds of environmental concern.  Typical analyte groups in this area are purgeable aromatics (BTEX-GRO) and DRO.  In addition to the trace level environmental contaminants, the chromatography section performs the challenging task of characterizing waste streams for target organic constituents so that appropriate disposal procedures can be chosen.

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