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MONITORING DEPARTMENT
The Monitoring Department incorporates the Districts analytical testing laboratory and the Industrial Pretreatment Program (IPP). The Laboratory is Massachusetts State certified for wastewater analysis. Approximately thirty percent of the total analysis is in support of process control for the Operations Department. The remaining seventy percent are regulatory analysis for compliance with the NPDES permit and the pretreatment program. The EPA approved Industrial Pretreatment Program regulates non-residential users of the District's system to insure that wastewater discharged will not cause interference at the wastewater treatment plant.

LABORATORY
The District recognizes the need to provide analytical testing data that is representative of the conditions in question and is suitable for making decisions that involve compliance with environmental regulations, public health, safety and legal obligations. For more information on the lab and its analytical capabilities refer to The Quality Assurance and Quality Control Plan (pdf document 107k) for the GLSD Laboratory.