Construction Management • Engineering • Architecture • Land Surveying • Material Testing Essex County Vocational Technical Schools QUALITY ASSURANCE PROJECT PLAN for LEAD DRINKING WATER TESTING For North 13th Street Tech Prepared by: HAKS DRAFT485E Route 1 South, Suite 200 Iselin, NJ 08830 May 15, 2017 th North 13 Street Tech QAPP Approvals Essex County Vocational Technical Schools Representatives: Program Manager: Ms. Bernetta Davis Print Name Signature Date Project Manager(s): Bruce Scrivo Print Name Signature Date Individual School Project Officer(s) (See page iii) Third Party Sampling Firm: (Note N/A if Third Party not involved) Name of Firm Print Name Signature Date Laboratory: Precision Analytical Services Name of Laboratory Laboratory Manager: Mark Feitelson Print Name Signature Date Laboratory QA Officer: Kelly Hogan Print Name Signature Date DRAFT ii th North 13 Street Tech QAPP Individual School Project Officers (ISPO) School Name Title Signature Date Bloomfield Tech High School Newark Tech High School th North 13 Street Tech High School West Caldwell Tech DRAFT iii North 13th Street Tech QAPP Table of Contents 1. OBJECTIVE & GOALS / BACKGROUND ................................................................................................................. 7 1.1 Objective and Goals ..................................................................................................................................... 7 1.2 Background .................................................................................................................................................. 7 2. PROJECT/TASK ORGANIZATION ........................................................................................................................... 8 2.1 School District Program Manager (Program Manager) ................................................................................ 8 2.2 School District Project Manager (Project Manager) .................................................................................... 8 2.3 Individual School Project Officer(s) .............................................................................................................. 9 2.4 Laboratory Manager .................................................................................................................................. 11 2.5 Laboratory’s Quality Assurance Officer (LQAO) ........................................................................................ 11 2.6 Field Sampler or Field Sampling Team ....................................................................................................... 11 3. SPECIAL TRAINING NEEDS/CERTIFICATION ....................................................................................................... 11 4. PROJECT / TASK DESCRIPTION ........................................................................................................................... 12 5. LEAD DATA QUALITY OBJECTIVES AND CRITERIA FOR MEASUREMENT ........................................................... 12 5.1 Precision ..................................................................................................................................................... 12 5.2 Bias ............................................................................................................................................................. 12 5.3 Representativeness .................................................................................................................................... 13 5.4 Comparability ............................................................................................................................................. 13 5.5 Completeness ............................................................................................................................................. 13 5.6 Sensitivity ................................................................................................................................................... 14 6. SECONDARY DATA .............................................................................................................................................. 14 7. FIELD MONITORING REQUIREMENTS ................................................................................................................ 14 7.1 Monitoring Process DesignDRAFT ......................................................................................................................... 14 7.2 Monitoring Methods .................................................................................................................................. 14 7.2.1 Faucets, Bubblers and Bubblers with Individual Chillers:…………………………………………………………….16 7.2.2 Water Coolers…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….17 7.2.3 Ice Machines………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………17 7.2.4 Point of Entry Samples………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..18 7.3 Field Quality Control .................................................................................................................................. 18 8. ANALYTICAL REQUIREMENTS............................................................................................................................. 18 8.1 Analytical Methods..................................................................................................................................... 18 8.2 Analytical Quality Control ........................................................................................................................... 19 iv th North 13 Street Tech QAPP 9. SAMPLE HANDLING AND CUSTODY REQUIREMENTS ........................................................................................ 20 9.1 Sample Archive/Disposal ............................................................................................................................ 20 10. INSTRUMENT/EQUIPMENT TESTING, INSPECTION, MAINTENANCE & CALIBRATION REQUIREMENTS ......... 21 10.1 Instrument/Equipment Testing, Inspection and Maintenance .................................................................. 21 10.2 Instrument/Equipment Calibration and Frequency ................................................................................... 21 10.3 Inspection/Acceptance of Supplies and Consumables ............................................................................... 21 11. DATA MANAGEMENT ......................................................................................................................................... 21 12. ASSESSMENTS / OVERSIGHT .............................................................................................................................. 22 13. DATA REVIEW, VERIFICATION, VALIDATION, AND USABILITY .......................................................................... 23 13.1 Data Review, Verification and Validation ................................................................................................... 23 13.2 Reconciliation with User Requirements ..................................................................................................... 23 14. REPORTING, DOCUMENTS AND RECORDS ........................................................................................................ 24 Appendix A - 3Ts for Reducing Lead in Drinking Water in Schools: ............................................................................. 25 Appendix B: Essex County Vocational Technical Schools Lead Water Testing Sampling Plan ..................................... 27 Appendix C: Chain of Custody ..................................................................................................................................... 29 Appendix D: Excel Template for Lead Results ............................................................................................................. 31 DRAFT v North 13th Street Tech QAPP List of Acronyms USEPA United States Environmental Protection Agency QAPP Quality Assurance Project Plan POE Point of Entry (Water Mains) ASTM American Society for Testing and Materials LFB Laboratory Fortified Blank FRB Field reagent blanks HDPE High-density polyethylene NTU Nephelometric Turbidity Units AQC Analytical Quality Control LCS Laboratory Control Standard LRL Laboratory’s Reporting Limit (RL) LCCA Lead Contamination Control Act LDR Laboratory Data Report NJDEP New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection LQAO Laboratory Quality AssuranceDRAFT Officer COC Chain of Custody SOP Standard Operating Procedure RGW Reagent-grade water SDWA Safe Drinking Water Act 6 North 13th Street Tech QAPP 1. OBJECTIVE & GOALS / BACKGROUND 1.1 Objective and Goals A Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP) is a document that describes the planning, implementation and evaluation steps involved in the acquisition of data that will be used to arrive at a specific goal. The overall objective for this QAPP is to determine the lead concentration at drinking water outlets within the District’s schools so that corrective action(s) For the purposes of compliance, any concentration greater than 15 µg/L is considered to exceed the lead action level. may be implemented at any drinking water outlets found to exceed the US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) drinking water lead action level of 15 micrograms per liter (µg/L). The lead sampling will consist of the collection of a first draw (initial) sample according to this QAPP and the North 13th Street Tech Sampling Plan for Lead Drinking Water Testing