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ANALYTICAL METHODOLOGY <br /> BTEX (Benzene, Toluene, Ethyl Benzene, and Xylenes) by Purge & Trap and <br /> GC-PID <br /> WATER - Method 502 or 8020 <br /> A 5 ml sample volume, or 5 mi of a suitable dilution, is purged on a <br /> suitable purge and trap system with helium. The purged sample is analyzed <br /> on a Gas Chromatograph equipped with a Photoionization Detector (PID). A <br /> packed column is used to separate the compounds. <br /> SOIL - Method 8020 <br /> A 10 gram, or other appropriate aliquot of soil, is weighed into a clean <br /> VOA vial. Soils received in brass core tubes are sampled by discarding 2-5 <br /> centimeters of soil from each end of the tubes (this is done to reduce the <br /> possibility of analyzing a portion of soil that has been exposed to sampling <br /> technique contamination). Equal aliquots of soil are then removed from <br /> each end of the tube and combined in the VOA vial. Soil in jars or bags <br /> is aliquoted using a similar technique, which discards exposed sample <br /> surfaces. A 10 ml, or other appropriate volume of methanol, is added to <br /> the soil and the soil is shaken with the solvent. 100 ul of the extract, or <br /> a reduced aliquot or volume of a suitable dilution, is injected into 5 ml of <br /> laboratory blank water and analyzed by the same technique used for water <br /> samples. <br /> CHEMWEST Aid,-_--ICAL LABORATORIES ;NC <br />