Sturm Environmental Services

Our overburden testing techniques detailed in Field and Laboratory Methods Applicable to Overburdens and Minesoils (EPA 600/2-78-054). SES reports identify materials both toxic and favorable in the overburden so that material handling scenarios can be developed for environmentally sound mining practices.Services include:

- Complete overburden analysis

- Core logging and strata identification

- Acid-base accounting

- Slake durability index determinations

- Nutrient and heavy metal analysis

- Evaluation of burial of toxic overburden

- Physical property testing

- Problematic evaluation of soils and mine soil

- ASTM and EPA Leaching studies

- Prime farmland designation

- Material handling reports

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SES has a complete inorganic chemistry laboratory which has had continued accreditation by the West Virginia Department of Natural Resources and Health Department.Services include:

- NPDES Renewal Analysis- Metals

-    Atomic Absorption (AA)   Inductively Coupled Argon Plasma (ICP)- Trace metals

- Graphite Furnace AA (GFAAES)

Methods: 3113B & 200.9

- AFS Atomic Fluorescent Spectrometer  

-Non-metals

-  Technicon AutoAnalyzer IISpectrometirc Methods

- General inorganic analysis

- Toxicity Characteristic LeachingProcedure (TCLP)

- Sludge and management plans

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SES's organic laboratory boasts its competitive turn-around time. Clients are provided with a full validation data package with each sample, including narrative summary, raw data, and calibration with quality control documentation. SES maintains standards which are consistent with EPA's Good Laboratory Practice regulations.

- Toxicity Characterization Leach Procedure (TCLP) Organic/Inorganic

Outsourced Parameters

- Priority pollutants

 - Acid-extractable

  - Base/neutral extractable 

- Volatile organics

  - PCBs 

- Pesticides

 Organic compounds in drinking water 

  - Volatile organics    - Trihalomethanes    - Pesticides    - Herbicides

Site Assessment for leaking underground storage tanks 

   - Flashpoint   - Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons (TPH) 

 - BTEX   - MTBE

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Services include:

-Microbiological examination of wastewater and drinking water

- Bioassays, acute and chronic

- Benthic and aquatic surveys

- Biological requirements for NPDES compliance samplings- Municipal wastewater testing

- Industrial wastewater testing

- NPDES compliance sampling, analysis, and reporting 

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SES's hydrology section, staffed by degreed professionals, provides a full range of services including site selection through data collection, field and laboratory testing, data evaluation, and the subsequent determination of existing hydrology.

Field crews are well-trained and equipped with 4-wheel drive vehicles and all necessary field testing and sampling equipment to provide on-site evaluations or to verify existing data.