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DSHS explains role as principal state drinking water lab, fee changes and private-testing limits
Summary
The Texas Department of State Health Services described its role in testing TCEQ compliance samples, which analytes it runs (including radiochemistry), planned fee increases and limitations on private-customer testing for PFAS and other methods.
Anita Keith, director of the Environmental Chemistry Unit at the Texas Department of State Health Services, told the TCEQ Drinking Water Advisory Work Group that DSHS is the principal state drinking water laboratory for the state’s portion of compliance monitoring and outlined which tests the laboratory runs, recent and planned fee changes, and the lab’s current limits for private-customer samples.
Keith said DSHS and the Lower Colorado River Authority split samples geographically and by method: LCRA currently handles PFAS testing while DSHS performs inorganic and organic…
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