Lizard Analytical Laboratories provides laboratory testing for contamination of surface water, wastewater, groundwater, soil, mineral, and other materials. LAL is a contractor for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and a subcontractor for the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment (CDLE) Oil Petroleum Storage (OPS) program for State projects. LAL meets or beats the CDLE price for State Lead remediation work. We also run samples for academic research projects as well as for Oil & Gas companies. If you do not recognize a test you need in the list below; call us. We have more resources than we have listed. If LAL does not do a particular test, we know other labs that will.
Laboratory Services
Purgeable Volatile Organic Compounds
8260 VOC’s — [EPA method 8260, 73 Volatile Organic Compounds] by P&T GC-MS
BTEX — Benzene Toluene Ethylbenzene & Xylenes by P&T GC-MS
MTBE — Methyl Tert Butyl Ether by P&T GC-MS
TVH GRO — [Gasoline Range Organics C6-C10] by P&T GC-MS
TCLP ZHE — [SW846 method 1311 Zero Headspace Extraction] for VOCs
Alcohols — Methanol, Ethanol, Propanol by direct injection GC-MS
Semi-volatile Organic Compounds
TEPH DRO — [Diesel Range Organics C10-C28] by GC-FID
Glycols — Ethylene and Propylene Glycols by direct injection GC-MS
PAH — [Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons] by GC-MS
8270SVOA — [EPA method 8270 Semivolatiles] by GC-MS
Oil & Grease — Total hexane extractable Oil and Grease methods 1664 / 9071
Waste Characterization — SW846 Ch 7. 40CFR 261.21
Reactivity Cyanide — 9014 Reactive – Cyanides
Reactivity Sulfide — 9034 Reactive – Sulfides
Corrosivity — 9040 / 9045 Corrosivity pH method
Ignitability — 1010A / ASTM D93 Flash Point Ignitability by Pensky-Martens Closed-Cup Tester
Paint Filter — 9095 Paint Filter Test
Inorganic Elements and Anions
TCLP Extraction — [SW846 method 1311 ] for RCRA Metals — Cr, As, Se, Ag, Cd, Ba, Hg, Pb
TCLP Filtration — Sw846 method 1311
Filtration — Filtration of sample for dissolved or potentially dissolved cations or anions
Microwave Digestion — Method 3051, 3015, and 200.8 sample prep for cations & metals
SoilFluidPrep-(pH,Anions,SAR) — Soil or Fluid extraction for pH, Anions, or Cation analysis
Total, Dissolved, and Potentially Dissolved — Cations or Anions
Elemental Analysis — EPA method 200.8 cations & metals By ICP-MS
SAR — analysis of water or soil extract; reporting calculated SAR, ESP, Hardness
Anions — Fluoride, Chloride, Bromide, Iodide, Nitrite, Nitrate, Sulfate by method 300.0 Ion Chromatography
General Chemistry
pH — pH of water or soil extracts method SM 4500 H+ B. EPA 9045D
specific gravity — SM 2710 F. Specific Gravity from Density and Temperature of Liquid
Conductivity — SM 2510 B. Conductivity or Resistivity
Turbidity — 180.1 Turbidity
Filtration — Filtration of sample for dissolved or potentially dissolved cations or anions
Dissolved Oxygen — EPA 360.1 Membrane Electrode Probe
LOH — SM 2540 B. Loss On Heating at (103-105C)
TSS — 160.2 / SM 2540 F. Total Suspended Solids, dried at 103-105C
TDS — 160.1 / SM 2540 C. Total Dissolved Solids dried at 180C
TS — SM 2540 B. Total Solids dried at 103-105C
TVS — Total Volatile Solids at 550C
Acidity — SM 2310 A. Total Acidity titration
Alkalinity — SM 2320 B. Total Alkalinity titration
Bicarbonate — SM 2320 B. Alkalinity titration
Chloride — 9253 / SM 4500-Cl B. Chloride by Argentometric Titration
Cyanide as HCN — 9014 / SM 4500-CN- D, Argentometric titration of free cyanide
Sulfide as H2S — 9034 / SM 4500-S2- F. Iodometric Titration of hydrogen sulfide
COD — Chemical Oxygen Demand by chromate digestion Hach 8000 spectrometric method
BOD — 5-day Biological Oxygen Demand (by special arrangement)
TIC — SM 5310 D. Total Non Purgable Inorganic Carbon, Wet-Oxidation Method, infrared CO2 detection
TOC — SM 5310 D. Total Non Purgable Organic Carbon, Wet-Oxidation Method, infrared CO2 detection