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TestAmerica Offers In-House Capabilities to Support EPA’s Leaching Environmental Assessment Framework (LEAF) Test Methods


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TestAmerica offers in-house capabilities to support the U.S. EPA’s Leaching Environmental Assessment Framework (LEAF) Test Methods.

The LEAF Test Methods represent a change from current leaching assessment approaches. The methods comprise a suite of leaching tests, which include batch, column, and tank tests. These methods are pre-U.S. EPA SW-846 Methods that have not been released as either draft or final SW-846 Methods. They are:

• Method 1313 “Liquid-Solid Partitioning as a Function of Extract pH for Constituents in Solid Materials using a Parallel Batch Extraction Procedure”.
• Method 1314 “Liquid-Solid Partitioning as a Function of Liquid-Solid Ratio for Constituents in Solid Materials using an Up-flow Percolation Column Procedure”.
• Method 1315 “Mass Transfer Rates of Constituents in Monolithic or Compacted Granular Materials using a Semi-dynamic Tank Leaching Procedure”.
• Method 1316 “Liquid-Solid Partitioning as a Function of Liquid-Solid Ratio for Constituents in Solid Materials using a Parallel Batch Extraction Procedure”.

TestAmerica is committed to providing timely and relevant analytical testing services to the nation’s coal-fired electric power fleets, and to firms engaged in the business of beneficially using coal combustion products in commerce. TestAmerica is a member of the Edison Electric Institute, the Utility Solid Waste Activities Group, and the American Coal Ash Association.

“TestAmerica Nashville’s experience, under Mr. Johnny Mitchell and Mr. Michael Dunn in support of EPA’s Inter-laboratory Validation Study of Methods 1313 and 1316, has expanded TestAmerica’s ability to support these techniques. At the Pittsburgh location, under the direction of Mr. Larry Matko, Technical Director, and Mr. Rick Sheets, Soil Scientist, we have an experienced team of chemists, chemical engineer and geochemist, who have led the implementation and commercial offering of all four of these new leaching methods at our facilities to our clients,” adds Rusty Vicinie, General Manager.

For more information on TestAmerica’s capabilities in support of EPA LEAF Test Methods, please contact Ms. Patricia McIsaac at Patricia.McIsaac@testamericainc.com or 703.623.3872.


About TestAmerica

TestAmerica is the leading environmental testing firm in the United States, with over 90 locations providing innovative technical expertise and comprehensive analytical testing services. Specialty analyses include source, ambient and indoor air, water quality, compliance, desalination, shale gas, specialty organics, emergency response, industrial hygiene, dioxins, drinking water, sediments and tissues, PPCPs and emerging contaminants, explosives, Federal/DoD, and radiochemistry and mixed waste testing.

TestAmerica affiliate companies include EMLab P&K, the leader in analytical microscopy and indoor air quality; QED Environmental Systems, Inc., the leading supplier of groundwater sampling equipment and remediation pumping systems; and TestAmerica Air Emissions Corp. (METCO Environmental), specializing in air emissions testing. TestAmerica currently employs nearly 2,800 professionals dedicated to exceptional service and solutions for our clients’ environmental testing needs.



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 environmental testing
 EPA LEAF test methods
 leaching
 SW-846 Method
 coal-fired electric power


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