30 | STATE GENERAL LABORATORY WATER Drinking water, bottled water (including natural mineral water) y Physicochemical parameters/Anions/Cations (conductivity, pH, chlorides, sulphates, nitrates, nitrites, sodium, boron, ammonium, fluorides, total organic carbon, cyanides), heavy metals (lead, cadmium, chromium, nickel, arsenic, selenium, antimony, mercury, manganese, copper, aluminium, iron, barium) y Organic pollutants (THMs, pesticides, VOCs, PAHs, organic micropollutants) y Radioactivity levels (gamma radionuclides such as Am-241, Co-60, Cs-137, Cs-134, K-40, gross α/βactivity) y Microbiological control (total coliforms, Escherichia coli, Enterococci, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, total bacterial count at 22 & 37°C, sulphite reducing clostridia, Clostridium perfringens, Legionella species). y Determination of toxicity [Tap water: Microtox Test using Vibrio fischeri (EC10-TU10 measured at 5’, 15’ and 30’) /Water from water refineries (EC20-TU20 or, depending on the stage of the process, EC10-TU10 measured at 5 ‘, 15’ and 30’)]. Surface and Ground water (dams, rivers, freshwater, underground water, boreholes, salt lakes) y Chemical control [pH, conductivity, sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, chromium, zinc, copper, BOD5, COD, mercury, cadmium, lead, nickel, boron, barium, iron, manganese, cobalt, arsenic, total phosphorus, free ammonium, total ammonium, chlorides, sulfates, fluorides, silicates, total hardness carbonates, bicarbonates, nitrites, total alkalinity, total residual chlorine, suspended solids, total organic carbon (TOC), VOCs, pesticides, PAHs, organic micro- pollutants, PCBs, dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and nitrates]. y PAHs have also been determined in sediments and sea water. [acenaphthene, fluorene, phenanthrene, anthracene, fluoranthene, pyrene, benzo(a)anthracene, chrysene, benzo(b)fluoranthene, benzo(k) fluoranthene, benzo(a)pyrene, dibenzo(a,h)anthracene, benzo(g,h,i,)perylene, indeno(1,2,3C,D)pyrene) as well as metals (arsenic, cadmium, manganese, nickel, zinc, lead, copper, chromium, mercury)]. y Microbiological control (total coliforms, Escherichia coli, Enterococci) y Determination of toxicity [Microtox Test using Vibrio fischeri (EC20-TU20 measured at 5’, 15’ and 30’), Daphtox Test using Daphnia magna (EC50-TU50 measured at 24 and 48 hours), Algaltox test using Pseudoklebsiella subcapitata (EbC50-TU50 measured at 72)]. y Environmental biomonitoring (spectrophotometric determination of chlorophyll α). y Radioactivity levels (gamma radionuclides such as Am-241, Co-60, Cs-137, Cs-134, K-40, gross a/bactivity). Monitoring of Ezousa’s and Acrotiri’s underground water y Chemical control (nitrates, total phosphorous, ammonium, TOC, BOD5, COD, total nitrogen, suspended solids, arsenic, lead, cadmium, mercury, chromium, copper, manganese, nickel, zinc, trichloroethylene, tetrachloroethylene, pesticides residues, organic pollutants) y Microbiological control (Escherichia coli, Somatic coliphages) y Determination of toxicity [Microtox Test using Vibrio fischeri (EC20-TU20 measured at 5’, 15’ and 30’), Daphtox Test using Daphnia magna (EC50-TU50 measured at 24 and 48 hours), Algaltox test using Pseudoklebsiella subcapitata (EC50-TU50 measured at 72 hours)]. Seawater / costal Sea water y Chemical control (Nickel, Cadmium, Lead, Mercury) y Microbiological control (Escherichia coli, Enterococci) y Radioactivity levels (Gamma Radionuclides such as Cs-137) y Control of new parameters in marine waters (pesticides and antibiotics). A new method was developed for the determination of the following substances: atrazine, simazine, chlorfenviphos, diuron, isoproturon, trimethoprim, imazalil, prochloraz, tebuconazole, tetrabuconazole, penconazole, metconazole, dimoxystrobin, metaflumizone, within the framework of the cooperation between the Department of Fisheries and Marine Research and the Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Control of Effluents of SGL. The above need arises from the implementation of the monitoring program required by the Water Framework Directives 2008/105/EC and 2013/39/EC and their amendments.
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