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Water testing times vary depending on the type of test being performed. Please allow up to 30 days for chemistry water tests and five days for environmental microbiology (coliform) testing.

A downloadable version of turnaround table below

Analysis	Turn-around	Unit
Alkalinity, Phenolphthalein	28 days	Inorganic Chemistry
Alkalinity, Total	28 days	Inorganic Chemistry
Aluminum	28 days	Inorganic Chemistry
Ammonia, distilled	28 days	Inorganic Chemistry
Antimony	28 days	Inorganic Chemistry
Barium	28 days	Inorganic Chemistry
Benzene, Toluene, Ethylbenzene, Xylenes	28 days	Organic Chemistry
Beryllium	28 days	Inorganic Chemistry
Boron	28 days	Inorganic Chemistry
Calcium	28 days	Inorganic Chemistry
Chloride	28 days	Inorganic Chemistry
Chlorine	28 days	Inorganic Chemistry
Chromium	28 days	Inorganic Chemistry
Chromium, Hexavalent	28 days	Inorganic Chemistry
Cobalt	28 days	Inorganic Chemistry
Copper	28 days	Inorganic Chemistry
Corrosivity	28 days	Inorganic Chemistry
E. coli MPN	48 hours	Environmental Microbiology
Fecal Coliform, MTF	72 hours	Environmental Microbiology
Fluoride	28 days	Inorganic Chemistry
Hardness	28 days	Inorganic Chemistry
Heterotrophic plate count	72 hours	Environmental Microbiology
Iron	28 days	Inorganic Chemistry
Legionella, water	7 days	Environmental Microbiology
Lithium	28 days	Inorganic Chemistry
Magnesium	28 days	Inorganic Chemistry
Manganese	28 days	Inorganic Chemistry
Mercury	28 days	Inorganic Chemistry
Metals , total digestion	28 days	Inorganic Chemistry
Metals, total filtration	28 days	Inorganic Chemistry
Metals, total rec. digestion	28 days	Inorganic Chemistry
Molybdenum	28 days	Inorganic Chemistry
Nickel	28 days	Inorganic Chemistry
Nitrogen, ammonia	28 days	Inorganic Chemistry
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl	28 days	Inorganic Chemistry
Nitrogen, nitrate	28 days	Inorganic Chemistry
Nitrogen, nitrate/nitrite	28 days	Inorganic Chemistry

Analysis Turn-around		Unit
Nitrogen, nitrite	28 days	Inorganic Chemistry
Nitrogen, total	28 days	Inorganic Chemistry
Oil and grease (HEM)	28 days	Organic Chemistry
Phosphate, ortho	28 days	Inorganic Chemistry
Phosphate, total	28 days	Inorganic Chemistry
Potassium	28 days	Inorganic Chemistry
Pseudomonas count	72 hours	Environmental Microbiology
Selenium	28 days	Inorganic Chemistry
Semivolatile Organic Compounds (SVOC)	28 days	Organic Chemistry
Semivolatile Organic Compounds (SVOC) check sample	28 days	Organic Chemistry
Semivolatile Organic Compounds (SVOC) screen	28 days	Organic Chemistry
Silicon	28 days	Inorganic Chemistry
Silver	28 days	Inorganic Chemistry
Sodium	28 days	Inorganic Chemistry
Solids, dissolved	28 days	Inorganic Chemistry
Solids, settleable	28 days	Inorganic Chemistry
Solids, suspended	28 days	Inorganic Chemistry
Solids, total	28 days	Inorganic Chemistry
Solids, volatile	28 days	Inorganic Chemistry
Specific conductance	28 days	Inorganic Chemistry
Strontium	28 days	Inorganic Chemistry
Thallium	28 days	Inorganic Chemistry
Tin	28 days	Inorganic Chemistry
Total Coliform, MF	48 hours	Environmental Microbiology
Total Coliform, MTF	72 hours	Environmental Microbiology
Total Coliform, P/A	24 hours	Environmental Microbiology
Total organic carbon (TOC)	28 days	Organic Chemistry
Trihalomethanes (THMs)	28 days	Organic Chemistry
Uranium, ICP-MS	28 days	Inorganic Chemistry
Vanadium	28 days	Inorganic Chemistry
Volatile organic compounds (VOC)	28 days	Organic Chemistry
Volatile organic compounds (VOC) check samples	28 days	Organic Chemistry
Volatile organic compounds (VOC) screen	28 days	Organic Chemistry
Zinc	28 days	Inorganic Chemistry

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