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Organic Blind Sample Project

OBSP Summary Reports

The Branch of Quality Systems (BQS) operates an Organic Blind Sample Project (OBSP). One of the goals of the project is to document bias and variability for the National Water Quality Laboratory (NWQL) through the use of blind quality assurance (QA) samples. From these summaries, districts can be informed of the NWQL's performance on QA samples that parallel their own environmental samples.
Quarterly Method Reports
The quarterly reports address recent changes in the method performance and is provided to the NWQL for their review and comment. The quarterly reports will be posted in January, April, July and October of each year.

OBSP is in the process of improving their quarterly reports. Because this is still a work in progress the OBSP section of the report includes comments in black and blue. The initial comments are reported in black. After reviewing the report with NWQL, the OBSP realized more information could be written to aid the users in reviewing the quarterly report. These additional comments are written in blue.

(NOTE: The OBSP Summary Reports are created using Microsoft Word or Excel. It is advisable to use this or similar software when printing these reports.)

July 2005 Quarterly Method Reports

Lab Schedule 1319 - Organophosphorus Pesticides, Whole Water Recoverable (WWR)
Lab Schedule 1324 - Organochlorine Pesticides by GC, Whole Water Recoverable (WWR)
Lab Schedule 1383 - Semivolatile Compounds (base/neutral/acid - BNA), WWR
Lab Schedule 1433 - Waste Water Compounds by GCMS, Filtered
Lab Schedule 2001 - Pesticides determinations by SPE and GCMS, Filtered
Lab Schedule 2002 - Moderate use pesticides and degradates by SPE and GCMS, Filtered
Lab Schedule 2003 - NAWQA ACT/ULUG Selected, Filtered Pesticides and Degradates
Lab Schedule 2021 - NAWQA 85 Volatile Organic Compounds by GCMS, WWR, Acidified
Lab Schedule 2060 - Polar Pesticides and Metabolites by SPE and HPLC/MS, Filtered
Lab Schedule 4024 - Gasoline Oxygenates, Un-acidified, Wat, Unfiltered
Carbon Section (includes TOC, DOC, Phenol, Oil and Grease, and Carbon in Sediment)