A utility report and a sample from your own tap answer different water-quality questions.
Service lines, interior pipes, solder, valves and fixtures can all influence water after it enters a property.
Laboratory analysis can be selected for lead, bacteria, metals, PFAS and other parameters based on what you want to know.
Send the details and a specialist will respond.
| Consideration | Independent Sampler | Bundled Testing and Treatment |
|---|---|---|
| Revenue if a problem is found | None beyond the report | Equipment, installation and service |
| Revenue if nothing is found | Same as any other outcome | Little to none |
| Who chooses the sampling point | Selected around the testing objective | The party who would sell the fix |
| Product recommendation | Outside the engagement | Usually the deliverable |
| Report portability | Written to be handed to third parties | Often reads as a proposal |
| Follow up sampling | Performed regardless of who fixed it | Typically tied to their own work |
Most households form an impression of their water from how it looks and tastes. That impression is a reasonable guide to sediment, iron and chlorine, and it is silent on the parameters generating the most enquiries, since lead and PFAS produce no color, taste or odor at any concentration.
Olympian Water Testing provides professional tap water testing for homeowners, renters, families and property buyers throughout New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
Treatment equipment is designed and certified to address specified contaminants under specified conditions. Selecting a system without professional sampling and analysis means selecting it against an assumption about what is present.
A properly designed analysis establishes what is actually in the water at the taps a household uses, which allows any equipment subsequently chosen to be matched to the water rather than to a general expectation.
It also establishes a reference position, so the performance of an installed system can be verified against a known starting point.
Our laboratory technician performs the site visit, identifies every cold water point of use, and collects at the points the household confirms are relevant, most commonly the kitchen and the bathroom, which in many buildings sit on different branches.
A stagnation period is requested from the client where the parameter calls for it, and the elapsed time is logged at collection. Samples are handled under documented chain of custody with holding times observed.
Panels commonly begin with lead and copper and extend to bacteriological indicators, PFAS, chemical parameters or a full potability panel where the property and the reason for testing support it.
Each parameter is reported with the laboratory result and reporting limit, with the sampled location clearly identified.
Parameters not detected above the reporting limit are listed explicitly, and each value is set against its applicable published reference with the category of that reference identified.
The report is prepared so it can be taken directly to a treatment supplier, a plumber, a landlord or a physician.
Operating since 1991, Olympian Water Testing works from five departure locations across the five boroughs into New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, with NELAP accredited laboratory analysis.
Parameter selection is determined through consultation with one of our consultants, who establishes the building, its plumbing history and the reason for the enquiry before recommending a panel.
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.
A utility report and a sample from your own tap answer different water-quality questions.
Service lines, interior pipes, solder, valves and fixtures can all influence water after it enters a property.
Laboratory analysis can be selected for lead, bacteria, metals, PFAS and other parameters based on what you want to know.
Send the details and a specialist will respond.
| Consideration | Independent Sampler | Bundled Testing and Treatment |
|---|---|---|
| Revenue if a problem is found | None beyond the report | Equipment, installation and service |
| Revenue if nothing is found | Same as any other outcome | Little to none |
| Who chooses the sampling point | Selected around the testing objective | The party who would sell the fix |
| Product recommendation | Outside the engagement | Usually the deliverable |
| Report portability | Written to be handed to third parties | Often reads as a proposal |
| Follow up sampling | Performed regardless of who fixed it | Typically tied to their own work |
Most households form an impression of their water from how it looks and tastes. That impression is a reasonable guide to sediment, iron and chlorine, and it is silent on the parameters generating the most enquiries, since lead and PFAS produce no color, taste or odor at any concentration.
Olympian Water Testing provides professional tap water testing for homeowners, renters, families and property buyers throughout New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
Treatment equipment is designed and certified to address specified contaminants under specified conditions. Selecting a system without professional sampling and analysis means selecting it against an assumption about what is present.
A properly designed analysis establishes what is actually in the water at the taps a household uses, which allows any equipment subsequently chosen to be matched to the water rather than to a general expectation.
It also establishes a reference position, so the performance of an installed system can be verified against a known starting point.
Our laboratory technician performs the site visit, identifies every cold water point of use, and collects at the points the household confirms are relevant, most commonly the kitchen and the bathroom, which in many buildings sit on different branches.
A stagnation period is requested from the client where the parameter calls for it, and the elapsed time is logged at collection. Samples are handled under documented chain of custody with holding times observed.
Panels commonly begin with lead and copper and extend to bacteriological indicators, PFAS, chemical parameters or a full potability panel where the property and the reason for testing support it.
Each parameter is reported with the laboratory result and reporting limit, with the sampled location clearly identified.
Parameters not detected above the reporting limit are listed explicitly, and each value is set against its applicable published reference with the category of that reference identified.
The report is prepared so it can be taken directly to a treatment supplier, a plumber, a landlord or a physician.
Operating since 1991, Olympian Water Testing works from five departure locations across the five boroughs into New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, with NELAP accredited laboratory analysis.
Parameter selection is determined through consultation with one of our consultants, who establishes the building, its plumbing history and the reason for the enquiry before recommending a panel.
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.
Tell Olympian what you want to understand about the property or water source, and the testing can be tailored to your specific questions and concerns.