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Our testing services help safeguard the quality of drinking water in NSW regional areas.

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Our West­mead Micro­bi­ol­o­gy and Foren­sic & Ana­lyt­i­cal Sci­ence Ser­vice (FASS) Water and Envi­ron­men­tal Chem­istry lab­o­ra­to­ries test water sam­ples for pro­grams autho­rised by NSW Health’s Envi­ron­men­tal Health branch.

NSW Health’s Drinking Water Monitoring Program

The Pub­lic Health Act 2010 requires all drink­ing water sup­pli­ers to have qual­i­ty assur­ance pro­grams for the safe sup­ply of drink­ing water.

Our labs per­form rou­tine micro­bi­o­log­i­cal, inor­gan­ic chem­i­cal and phys­i­cal test­ing for NSW Health’s Drink­ing Water Mon­i­tor­ing Pro­gram for water util­i­ties in region­al areas. This helps to ensure drink­ing water in region­al and rur­al areas is com­pli­ant with Aus­tralian Drink­ing Water Guide­lines 2011.

Please fol­low our pro­ce­dures for the col­lec­tion of water sam­ples for Micro­bi­o­log­i­cal, Chem­i­cal, Flu­o­ride and Mer­cury testing.

Pesticides and other organic chemical testing

Our FASS Water & Envi­ron­men­tal Chem­istry lab tests water sam­ples sub­mit­ted for NSW Health projects and pub­lic health inves­ti­ga­tions of pes­ti­cide residues, algal tox­ins and dis­in­fec­tion by-products.

Fol­low our pro­ce­dures for col­lec­tion of sam­ples for Pes­ti­cide, Total Car­bon (a mea­sure of cyanobac­te­r­i­al bloom) and Dis­in­fec­tion By-Prod­uct testing.

Urgent testing

Sam­ples requir­ing urgent analy­sis can be sub­mit­ted out­side busi­ness hours using our Urgent Analy­sis pro­ce­dure and form.

Please con­tact our lab­o­ra­to­ries to dis­cuss sam­ple receipt and report­ing before send­ing. Con­tact details are on the form and list­ed below.

NSW Health projects and Public Health Units

Projects approved by the NSW Health Water Unit and NSW Health Pathol­o­gy should be sub­mit­ted as ‘Projects’.

Pub­lic Health Units can sub­mit sam­ples as ‘Pub­lic Health Inves­ti­ga­tions’ or as ‘PHU-Allo­cat­ed’.

For infor­ma­tion see our Water Sam­ple Sub­mis­sion Form and Total Organ­ic Car­bon page.

Contact us

Micro­bi­o­log­i­cal test­ing is per­formed at our West­mead Core Micro­bi­ol­o­gy Laboratory.

Chem­i­cal and phys­i­cal test­ing is per­formed at our FASS Water and Envi­ron­men­tal Chem­istry Lab­o­ra­to­ry, Lidcombe.

All sam­ples sub­mit­ted to us require spe­cif­ic con­sign­ment labels. See our Forms and Tem­plates page.

NSW Health Pathol­o­gy West­mead – Core Micro­bi­ol­o­gy Laboratory FASS – Water & Envi­ron­men­tal Chem­istry Laboratory
Tele­phone
Work­ing hours
After hours

02 8890 6255
0419 215 490

02 9646 0284
0413 984 105
Email [email protected] [email protected]
Address NSW Health Pathol­o­gy – West­mead Microbiology
Cen­tral Spec­i­men Reception
Lev­el 2, Block I, Insti­tute Road
West­mead NSW 2145
Foren­sic & Ana­lyt­i­cal Sci­ence Service
Sci­ence Centre
480 Weeroona Road
Lid­combe NSW 2141

 

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