Water Resources--Office of Water Quality
CHAPTER A5. (Version 2.2, 9/2004)
PROCESSING OF WATER SAMPLES
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Version 2.1(dated 4/02) (1.44 MB) with replacement pages 23, 26, 93 (dated 9/04), and 17, 63-65, 76, 91, App-B-1, and Ref-4 (dated 11/04) and the Section updates below. (To print this file with comments, select the "Print What--Document and comments" print function.)
Section 5.6.1.F -- Wastewater, Pharmaceutical, and Antibiotic Compounds (dated 4/03).
Section 5.6.4.A -- Arsenic Speciation, by J.R. Garbarino,
M.E. Lewis, and A.J. Bednar (dated 1/05; 3.52 mb pdf).
Section 5.6.4.B -- Low-level Mercury (dated 10/04)
(Note: Version 2.1 and Sections 5.6.1.F, 5.6.4.A, and 5.6.4.B, when combined, comprise Version 2.2 of Chapter 5.)
Table of Contents
Cover/Title Page
Back of Title Page
Foreword
Abstract
Introduction
Purpose and scope
Requirements and recommendations
Field manual review and revision
Acknowledgments
| 5.0 |
General information
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| 5.1 |
Raw samples
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| 5.2 |
Filtered samples
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| 5.3 |
Solid-phase extraction of pesticides
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| 5.4 |
Sample preservation
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| 5.5 |
Handling and shipping of samples
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| 5.6 |
Summary of sample-collection and sample-processing procedures
for specific analytes
*Section 5.6.1.C, Phenols, has been
revised in this section to create version 2.1 of chap. A5.
*A section has been added. Section 5.6.1.F, "Wastewater, Pharmaceutical,
and Antibiotic Compounds"
*A section has been added. Section 5.6.4.A, "Arsenic Speciation, ver. 1.1" (1/2005)
*A section has been added. Section 5.6.4.B, "Low-level Mercury" |
Conversion factors, selected terms, abbreviations,
and chemical symbols and formulas
Selected references
Appendixes
Appendix A5-A. Sample-designation codes and a summary
of field-processing requirements for analyses of organic compounds in water
Appendix A5-B. Sample-designation codes and a
summary of field-processing requirements for analyses of inorganic constituents in water
Appendix A5-C. Sample-designation codes and a
summary of field-processing requirements for analyses of stable isotopes and radiochemicals in water
Appendix A5-D. Procedures for processing samples for analysis of dissolved and suspended organic carbon
using a silver filter and gas-pressurized filtration apparatus (Note: Appendix A5-D has been added to
Chapter A5, Version 2 (4/02) and contains the text for the Version 1 section 5.2.2.C.)
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Version History:
(Version 1 of Chapter A5 has been archived at the following Web address:
http://water.usgs.gov/owq/FieldManual/chapter5-Archive/html/Ch5_contents.html)
(Version 2 has been updated to Version 2.1 with changes to section 5.6.1.C, "Phenols."
The archive of 5.6.1.C, version 2, is at http://water.usgs.gov/owq/FieldManual/chapter5-Archive/pdf/5.6.1.C-v2.pdf)
(Version 2.1 has been updated to Version 2.2 with changes to Section 5.1.1, "Composites and Subsamples," and 5.4.2, "Chemical Treatment." The archive of 5.1.1, version 2.1, is at http://water.usgs.gov/owq/FieldManual/chapter5-Archive/pdf/5.1.1-ver2.1.pdf and 5.4.2 is at http://water.usgs.gov/owq/FieldManual/chapter5/Archive/5.4.2.pdf.
A new section, 5.6.4.B, "Low-level Mercury" (version 1.0 dated 10/2004) was added to this web page on Oct. 26, 2004.
Version 1.1 of section 5.6.4.A (1/2005) replaced 5.6.4.A (8/2003).