Water testing with the method and reporting limits in writing

Lower Manhattan contains a substantial stock of buildings originally constructed for commercial use and subsequently converted to residential occupancy. A commercial building serves clusters of fixtures for part of the day. A residential building serves fixtures on every floor around the clock. When the first is converted into the second, the supply system typically adapts rather than being replaced.

Olympian Water Testing provides professional water testing for boards, managing agents, owners, residents and engineers throughout Lower Manhattan and the wider New York region.

Converted buildings frequently carry long horizontal runs serving units carved from former floor plates, riser sections proportioned for demands that no longer exist, and branches that once served banks of restrooms now supplying apartments.

Occupancy compounds it. A unit held vacant between tenancies, a residence used a dozen weekends a year, or an investor held apartment all produce extended periods in which water is not moving through the branch serving them.

Stagnation is the dominant variable for anything the plumbing contributes, which makes those occupancy patterns directly relevant to what a sample shows.

Olympian Water Testing establishes the actual configuration rather than the documented one, since conversions generate paperwork describing intent more accurately than plumbing.

Sampling points are selected to distinguish a unit level condition from a riser level condition and a building level one, with occupancy pattern recorded alongside the stagnation period at each point.

Ground floor commercial tenancies drawing on the same service connection are covered in the same visit and reported separately, so each party reads the section that concerns it.

Our reporting identifies each sampling point and its position in the building, the conditions and occupancy pattern recorded there, the analytical method, the reporting limit and the measured value.

Where a unit has been vacant, that is stated explicitly, since an extended stagnation period is informative rather than anomalous.

Olympian Water Testing provides professional drinking-water sampling throughout New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. Testing is selected around the water source, property, plumbing system and reason for the investigation, with analysis performed by an accredited environmental laboratory.

Olympian Water Testing has worked with boards, agents, owners and residents across Lower Manhattan since 1991, with NELAP accredited laboratory analysis.

The same documentation standard applies whether the scope covers a single unit or an entire building.

Enquiries are received at any hour throughout the year, and a specialist scopes the program before it is arranged.