Water Quality

Drinking Water Sampling And Analysis Screening

Building owners and property managers are finding that along with indoor air quality, drinking water quality is of concern to their buildings' occupants. HBI has developed a drinking water screening program in this regard to augment its regular proactive indoor air quality inspections. As a result, the benefits of proactive attention to the indoor environment are more comprehensively realized

These benefits include:

• Healthier and safer work environments
• Enhanced employee/tenant relations
• Professional and independent documentation of ongoing maintenance efforts
• Proof of due diligence for liability protection
• Marketing advantages for tenant retention and attraction

As HBI is already in the building the labor costs of this sampling can be waived. As a result, the screening program can be extremely economical, as well as valuable.

The HBI Drinking Water Sampling and Analysis Screening program consists of the following:

Watercheck analysis of domestic main water supply – this sample of the water provided by the municipality to the building is analyzed and compared with the relevant EPA Maximum Contaminant Level for drinking water for 75 parameters.

Lead and copper in water analysis -- samples from one representative drinking source on each floor of the building are analyzed for lead and copper content. These samples will be flushed samples, and will be collected using special acid-washed bottles. The samples will be analyzed for lead using atomic absorption spectrometry, and for copper using graphite furnace atomic absorption techniques. All results, analysis, conclusions, and recommendations are incorporated into the regular HBI indoor air quality inspection report.

 

 

Microbiological:
Total coliform
Inorganic chemicals - metals:
Aluminum Arsenic Barium Cadmium Chromium	Copper Iron Lead Manganese Mercury	Nickel Selenium Silver Sodium Zinc
Inorganic chemicals and other physical factors:
Alkalinity (Total as CaCO3) Chloride Fluoride Nitrate as N	Nitrite as N Sulfate Hardness	pH (Standard Units) Total Dissolved Solids Turbidity (Turbidity Units)
Organic chemicals - trihalomethanes:
Bromoform Bromodichloromethane	Chloroform Dibromochloromethane	Total THMs (sum of four)
Organic chemicals – volatiles:
Benzene Vinyl Chloride Carbon Tetrachloride 1,2-Dichloroethane Trichloroethene 1,4-Dichlorobenzene 1,1-Dichloroethene 1,1,1-Trichloroethane Bromobenzene Bromomethane Chlorobenzene Chloroethane Chloromethane 2-Chlorotoluene 4-Chlorotoluene	Dibromochloropropane Dibromomethane 1,2-Dichlorobenzene 1,3-Dichlorobenzene Dichlorodifluoromethane 1,1-Dichloroethane Trans-1,2-Dichloroethene cis-1,2-Dichloroethene Dichloromethane 1,2-Dichloropropane trans-1,3-Dichloropropene cis-1,3-Dichloropropene 2,2-Dichloropropane 1,1-Dichloropropene 1,3-Dichloropropane	Ethylbenzene Ethylenedibromide Styrene 1,1,1,2-Tetrachloroethane 1,1,2,2-Tetrachloroethane Tetrachloroethene (PCE) 1,2,3-Trichlorobenzene 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene 1,1,2-Trichloroethane Trichlorofluoromethane 1,2,3-Trichloropropane Toluene Xylene Methyl-Tert-Butyl-Ether