Experience

USEPA Contract Laboratory Program (CLP)

Since 1981, our analytical expertise in providing routine analytical services (RAS) has allowed CompuChem to handle multiple organic and inorganic sample analysis bid lots for the U.S. EPA and to offer CLP-like services to other government and commercial clients. We are also one, if not the largest, providers of Modified (Flex) Analysis to the USEPA in the Contract Lab Program.

CompuChem has chosen to be an active participant in the EPA CLP because the program involves the leading edge in environmental analytical testing methodologies. While the CLP supports CERCLA activities, the methods used in the program are literally state-of-the-art. The quality oversight program associated with the CLP enhances all of our analytical testing processes. Quarterly blind performance evaluation (PE) samples (for both the organic and inorganic programs) substantiate our analytical performance. For organic analyses, the Contract Laboratory Program is the only one having a GC/MS tape-auditing program that confirms compliance. Also, on a yearly basis, participating laboratories are subjected to an on-site audit, conducted by technical and evidentiary personnel to verify that requisite technical and quality systems are in place. Finally, the CLP has a contract compliance screening (CCS) component, which assesses the hardcopy and electronic deliverables, to ensure technical and deliverable requirements have been met. Each sample reported to the EPA undergoes strict CCS.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)

CompuChem has been affiliated with the US Army Corps of Engineers since the inception of the HTRW-CX program. CompuChem has performed a significant amount of work for the Corps of Engineers on several project sites, a listing of which is provided below.

Program Site Analysis Types
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) East Hastings (NE)
Twin Cities Army Ammo Plant (MN)
Lake City Army Ammo Plant (MO)
Fort Stewart (GA)
Former Antigo AFB (WI)
Fort Campbell (KY)
Seymour Johnson AFB (NC)
Moody AFB (GA)
Massachusetts Military Reservation (MA)
Savanna Army Ammo Plant (IL)
Camp Lejeune (NC)
Kincheloe AFB (MI)
Fort Dix (NJ)
Shaw AFB (SC)
Newark AFB (NJ)
Camp Peary (VA)
DeRewel (PA)
Stratford Army Engine Plant (ME)
Red River Army Depot (TX)
Nascalite (NJ)
Schuylkill River Park Project (PA)
Sevenson Environmental Services Fort Bragg, NC, Hunter Army Airfield
Malcolm Pirnie – Fort Lee, Fort Eustis
organic and inorganic

Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center (NFESC)

Our affiliated with the U.S. Navy's environmental, clean-up program and was originally certified at the inception of the Naval Energy and Environment Support Activity (NEESA) Program in 1988. This program has evolved into the current Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) Validation Program (NFESC). Since the beginning, CompuChem has been involved in over 300 analytical projects under the umbrella of multiple Comprehensive Long-term Environmental Action Navy (CLEAN) contracts through various environmental contractors.

Some of the projects and sites CompuChem has conducted for the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) Validation Program (NFESC) are as follows:
  • NAS Oceana, SWMU 2B, 2C, 2E; ERA at Operable Unit 16 – Site 89; Treatability Study OU No. 20, Site 86 GW Monitoring; OU 15, Site 88; OU 14, Site 69; SWMU 307 for soil sampling; SWMUs 24, 2B,2C, 2E & Background Wells for GW; OU 10, Site 35; Virginia Beach (VA)
  • Armed Forces Experimental Training Activity (AFETA) Multi-Site Ecological Investigations, Camp Peary, Soil, surface water and sediment, Williamsburg (VA)
  • St. Juliens Creek Annex, Phase II Baseline Ecological Risk Assessment – Sediment and Fish; Site 5 GW Monitoring; Phase II ERA for Blows Creek; Chesapeake (VA)
  • Step 4 Bousch Creek Ecological Risk Assessment, Naval Station, Sediment, Surface water, fish tissue, Norfolk (VA)
  • Site Investigation, Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Metals analysis in soil, Portsmouth (VA)
  • Washington Navy Yard, UST Case Sites, Quarterly GW Sampling, Washington (DC)
  • MCB Camp Lejuene, Operable Unit No. 10, Site 35, Jacksonville (NC)
  • Allegany Ballistics Laboratory, Sites, 1,5, & 10 for GW, SW, Sediment and Biota, Rocket Center,WV
  • Naval Activity Puerto Rico, Ceiba, RCRA Facility Investigation @ SWMU 14, GW and Soil Sampling, Puerto Rico
  • Terrestrial Baseline Ecological Risk Assessment at Site 41B, AFETA Camp Peary, Williamsburg (VA)
  • FISC Craney Island, GW Sampling Portsmouth; Mod 1 BTC Annual GW Monitoring; Site Assessment/Plume Evaluation French Drain Area; Portsmouth (VA)
  • Little Creek SWM 3, Pier 10 Sandblast Yard for GW, Sediment, Soil, Grab GW Fast turnaround; Sites 9 & 10 Round 13, Naval Amphibious Base, Little Creek, GW Sampling; Little Creek Site 11A; Virginia Beach (VA)
  • Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Sites 4 & 27 GW and Soil Sampling, Patuxent River (MD)
  • Naval Weapons Station Yorktown, Cheatham Annex (CAX) Site 1 Landfill Near Incinerator – Hotspot Sampling/Wetland Re-Characterization; Site 1 Pre-Removal Characterization of Sediments; Sites 1, 3, 6, & 7 for GW, Sediment, SW and Pore Water; Yorktown (VA)
  • Vieques Environmental Response Program ERP Sites and Background Areas 8 Areas of Concern S, N, J, L, K, U, PI7, & PI 4 on East Vieques & 3 AOC E, I & R on West Vieques Surface, subsurface soil, surface water, sediment and groundwater, Vieques Island, Puerto Rico
  • Site 28 Baseline Ecological Risk Assessment, Sediment and Fish Tissue, Indian Head (MD)
  • Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Building 195 Subsurface Soil sampling, (VA) Yorktown Naval Weapons Center (VA)
  • Cherry Point MAB Operable Unit One: OU 14 SW sampling; Site 86 & 69 for SS & SW; OU1 GW Treatability Study; Site 6 & OU 2 Sewer Line Area for Soil and GW Sampling; OU 1 GW Treatability Study; many others (NC)
    NAWC - Warminster (PA)
    NAWC - Trenton (NJ)
    Norfolk Naval Air Station (VA)
    Camp Allen Landfill (VA)
    MCLB Albany (GA)

State Certifications

Our laboratory is certified by some of the most prestigious environmental oversight agencies in the country. CompuChem is a member of the NELAC program and maintains all requirements associated with this accreditation. CompuChem qualifies for other state certifications by virtue of reciprocity agreements between our home state certifying agency, the North Carolina Department of the Environment and Natural Resources, and certifying agencies located in other states across the nation.

Certification Summary Table

Accrediting Body Certificate Expiration ID Number Type
Connecticut Department of Public Health 3/31/10 PH-0522 State
Florida Department of Health 6/30/09 E87047 Primary NELAP accreditation
State of Illinois Environmental Protection Agency 7/12/08 200034 Secondary NELAP accreditation
State of Kansas Department of Health and Environment 7/31/08 E-10312 Secondary NELAP accreditation
State of Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality 6/30/08 03071 Secondary NELAP accreditation
Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection and Energy 6/30/08 M-NC028 State
New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services 7/13/08 201601 Secondary NELAP accreditation
New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection 6/30/09 NC249 Secondary NELAP accreditation
New York Department of Health 4/1/09 10065 Secondary NELAP accreditation
North Carolina Department of Environment, and Natural Resources 12/31/08 79 Home state certification
Ohio EPA Voluntary Action Program (VAP) 4/7/10 CL0060 State
Oklahoma Division of Environmental Quality 8/31/08 9410 State
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection 9/30/08 68-00672 Secondary NELAP accreditation
South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control 6/30/07 99055002 State
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources 8/31/08 999314910 State
Department of the Navy Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center 2/6/08 NFESC 413 Agency
U.S. EPA Contract Laboratory Program (CLP) Contract end LIBRTY Agency
U.S. Department of Agriculture 3/31/09 RAL-99-04 Permit to receive soil from foreign sources