EPA New England Regional Laboratory (Office of Environmental Measurement and Evaluation)
Serving Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont & 10 Tribal Nations
Biology Laboratory
The Biology Laboratory is a state-of-the-art laboratory which provides a variety of biological analyses and services including:
- Microbiology: conducting bacterial analyses to measure drinking water and surface water quality; inspection and certification of state and tribal drinking water laboratories
- Aquatic toxicity testing: testing the toxicity of surface waters and treatment plant discharges
- Sediment toxicity testing: testing sediments from lake and river bottoms for toxicity
- Polymerase chain reaction: a DNA splitting process used for identifying and differentiating between likely sources of human verses non-human (ducks, beavers, etc.) bacterial pollution in surface waters
- General biology: a main biology lab for fish processing, invertebrate identification and other assorted activities