739 Hastings Street
Traverse City, MI 49686
Phone: (231) 941-2230
Fax: (231) 941-2240
1295 King Avenue
Columbus, Ohio 43212
Phone: (614) 487-1040

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environmental report generation

GLEC with headquarters in Grand Traverse county in Michigan and a facility in Columbus Ohio has extensive capabilities and experience in conducting field and laboratory tests required by environmental legislation such as the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), the Clean Water Act (CWA), as well as FERC Exhibit E requirements, and others. Our team of terrestrial and aquatic scientists is experienced in the development of testing plans tailored to the client's particular need. The work is done in a high-quality, timely, and cost-effective manner. Stringent Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) procedures are routinely applied and Good Laboratory Practices (GLP) are implemented when necessary. All laboratory practices follow written Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), with staff trained in the performance of those SOPs.

Should a client's needs extend beyond the implementation of standard testing protocols, our staff is particularly experienced at solving the more difficult and technically challenging problems relating to pollutant characterization, transport and transformation, food web transfer, ecosystem effects, and environmental test protocol development, refinement, and validation. These problems are often tackled in a multi-step fashion, where each successive step builds on the information obtained from the preceding step. The solution may require literature searches, laboratory testing, field data collection, data interpretation, multi-disciplinary "brainstorming," or combinations of these techniques. Analysis and interpretation are done in the context of the specific problem to be solved, with appropriately experienced professionals.

At GLEC, we also are experienced in both aquatic biomonitoring and bioassay testing using both flow-through and static systems. In the laboratory, we have developed a biomonitoring apparatus (Automated Biomonitoring System) that allows us to monitor stress by measuring (in a flow-through chamber) the ventilatory response of fish exposed to an effluent. We also are experienced in conducting acute and chronic toxicity tests with warm- and cold-water fish species, invertebrates (e.g. Daphnia, Ceriodaphnia, Chironomus, and others), and algae. With fish and invertebrates, we use both flow-through and static or static-renewal test procedures, while with algae, we use static test conditions.