WaterOne Lab Personnel Repeats Perfect Score on EPA Performance Evaluation

WaterOne Lab employees recently received a perfect score on an EPA performance evaluation.  WaterOne’s Laboratory is accredited by the Kansas Department of Health & Environment’s Laboratory Inspection Program under the guidelines of the National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Conference.  Every six months WaterOne’s Lab staff is required to perform a round of testing to prove their capabilities. This is augmented by an on-site examination by a State inspector, and at times an EPA inspector, who make regular visits to WaterOne’s Laboratory Services section to review every detail of the Laboratory’s operations.

WaterOne chemists, Brent Fulton and Brook Welner, and microbiologist Cheryl Besch were each given the performance evaluation on 53 different water quality parameters. The team has consistently received perfect scores on each of the tests over the years.

Over 1,400 water samples are taken each month – and analyzed in the Laboratory – to ensure that the water delivered to WaterOne customers meets, or is superior, to all state and federal standards for safe drinking water.