Sydney Water Monitoring Services

Monitoring Services delivers Sydney Water's environmental and water monitoring programs and hydrometric services to help Sydney Water achieve its objectives of protecting the environment and public health.

Environmental monitoring includes all influent into wastewater, stormwater or "reuse" systems; effluent from those systems; and the measure of impacts on receiving environments. Water monitoring includes raw water, treated water and recycled water that is reticulated for residential, commercial or industrial purposes.

Sydney Water has its own purpose-built laboratory. It is one of the leading analytical laboratories in Australia managing a diverse spectrum of analyses and research and development programs.

Located in a modern, multistorey building, our facilities, processes and state-of-the-art, analytical equipment have been NATA (National Association of Testing Authorities) accredited for over 50 years. The laboratory also serves a broad range of clients in industry and government.

Our laboratory capability includes:

• Clean, potable and environmental waters
  Provides comprehensive, responsive analytical services for clean waters of types, from drinking water to environmental samples, using automated equipment for large numbers of samples.
• Wastewaters, Sediments and Solids
  Wastewater samples whether it is sewage effluent, industrial wastewater, sludge, biosolids or soil samples are analysed using both traditional and semi-automated techniques.
• Chemical Laboratories
  Trace metals
  Trace organics
  Water Chemistry
  Nutrients
  Olfactory
• Biological Laboratories
  Microbiology
  Parasitology
  Phycology
  Cell Molecular Biology (CMB) -viruses
  Aquatic Ecology
• Macro Invertebrates

View the list of available analysis and detection limits (PDF - 25KB) .

Monitoring Services provides all the services - sample bottles, transport, analysis and reporting - that is the basis for Sydney Water's drinking water quality monitoring and reporting program and which produces:

• Daily Drinking Water Quality results
• Quarterly Drinking Water Quality Report
• 5-year Drinking Water Quality Management Plan

For further information on Monitoring Services for businesses or for commercial customer inquiries to our laboratory:
Phone: 02 9800 6935
Fax: 02 9800 6741
analysis@sydneywater.com.au.