Re: EPA Method 908.1 - Uranium

[rkathren@tricity.wsu.edu (Ron L. Kathren)]

The information you provide is good and current, but the method is
antiquated and quite insensitive, plus subject to interferences from Fe if
not carefully done.  KPA gives much better sensitivity, and is a lot easier
to do.

Ron Kathren


At 09:40 AM 8/3/98 -0500, GACMail98@aol.com wrote:
>EPA Method 908.1, "Uranium in Drinking Water - Fluorometric Method," 
>is described in "Prescribed Procedures for Measurement of Radioactivity 
>in Drinking Water," EPA-600/4-80-032, August 1980; page images of this
>report may be viewed online at
>
>http://www.epa.gov/clariton/
>
>search on report number 600480032.
>
>(Thanks to Andrew Karam for turning me on to EPA's clariton site.)
>
>Hardcopy of report might also still be ordered online from EPA's 
>National Center for Environmental Publication and Information at
>
>http://www.epa.gov/ncepihom
> 
>fyi.  The corresponding ASTM standard is D2907, "Standard Test Methods
>for Microquantities of Uranium in Water by Fluorometry."
>
>You may also want to see the EPA Final Rule, "National Primary Drinking 
>Water Regulations: Analytical Methods for Radionuclides," 62 FR 10168, 
>March 5, 1997.  Federal Register is available online from Government 
>Printing Office (www.gpo.gov).
>
>Glenn
>GACMail98@aol.com
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