Experimental parking area monitored by GITECO. Parque de Las Llamas (Santander)

Construction and monitoring of pavement biodegrading, Escuela de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos (Santander)

Permeation test carried out on a pavement section

Hydraulic analysis of the samples, laboratory examination

The staff of the laboratory section in GITECO is specialised in testing water quality and System Sustainable Urban Drainage

SUDSlab counts with a complete variety of equipment for water quality and quantity tests. PCE instruments collaborates with the lab.

Water quality test

PARAMETER RANGE (mg/L) MEASUREMENT METHOD
Organic acids 50 - 2500 Esterification
Alcohol 0.01 - 0.12 Alcohol oxidase
Aluminum 0.02 - 0.5 Cromazurol S
Ammonium 0.02 - 167 ISO 7150-1 ; DIN 38406 E5-1
AOX 0.05 - 3 DIN EN ISO 9562
Boron 0.05 - 2.5 DIN 38405-D17
Cadmium 0.02 - 0.3 Cadion
Carbonate 55 - 550 pH indicator
Total Organic Carbon (TOC) 2-735 DIN 38409-H3
Cyanide 0.01 - 0.6 ISO 6703-1-2-3-1984 ; DIN 38405-D13
Easily releasable cyanide 0.03 - 0.35 LANGE method
Total chlorine 0.05 - 2 ISO 7393-1-2-1985 ; DIN 38408-G4-2
Free chlorine 0.05 - 2 ISO 7393-1-2-1985 ; DIN 38408-G4-2
Chloride 1 - 70 Iron thiocyanate (III)
Copper 0.1 - 8 Bathocuproine disulfonic acid
Chrome 0.03 - 1 EN ISO 11885 ; DIN 38405-D24
Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD) 4 - 1650 EN 1899- 1
Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) 0 - 10000 ISO 6060-1989 ; DIN 38409-H41-H44
Anionic surfactants 0.05 - 2 ISO 7875-1-2-1984 ; DIN 38409-H23-1
Cationics surfactants 0.2 - 2 Azul de bromofenol
Nonionic surfactants 0.2 - 200 DIN 38409-H23-2
Carbon dioxide 55 - 550 pH indicator
Chlorine dioxide 0.09 - 3.8 ISO 7393-1-2-1985 ; DIN 38408-G4-2
Total hardness 1 - 20 °dH Metalftaleine
Residual hardness 0.02 - 0.6 °dH Metalftaleine
Electroconductivity 0.01 - 200 ms/cm SM 2510 B
Tin 0.1 - 2 PYF
Phenols 0.05 - 5 ISO 6439-1990 ; DIN 38409-H16
Fluoride 0.1 - 2.5 SPADNS
Formaldehyde 0.5 - 10 Acetylacetone
Phosphate 5 - 90 ISO 6878-1-1986 ; DIN 38405-D11-4
Phosphorus total 0.03 - 60 ISO 6878-1-1986 ; DIN 38405-D11-4
Total Pretoleum Hydrocarbons (TPH) 0.1 - 999 ASTM Method D7066-04
Iron 0.01 - 6 ISO 6332-1988 ; DIN 38406-E1-1 ; DIN 38405-D17
Magnesium 0.5 - 50 ISO 7875-1
Manganese 0.005 - 5 PAN
Molybdenum 3 - 300 Thioglycolic acid
Nickel 0.1 - 6 DIN 38406-E11
Nitrate 1-155 ISO 7890-1-2-1986 ; DIN 38405-D9-2
Nitrite 0.005 - 20 EN ISO 26777 ; DIN 38405-D10
Total nitrogen 1 - 100 EN ISO 11905-1
Dissolved oxygen 0 - 20 40 CFR 136
Ozone 0.05 - 2 ISO 7393-1-2-1985 ; DIN 38408-G4-2
Silver 0.04 - 2500 LANGE method
pH 0 - 14 US-EPA 150.1 y 150.2
Lead 0.1 - 2 PAR
Potassium 8 - 50 Kalignost
Resistivity 0.025 - 49 MW/cm LANGE method
Salinity 0 - 42 gr/Kg LANGE method
Dissolved solids 0 - 50000 LANGE method
Suspended solids 2 - 1000 UNE-EN 872:1996
Sulfates 40 - 900 Barium sulfate
Sulfites 0.1 - 5 LANGE method
Sulfides 0.1 - 2 ISO 10530-1991 ; DIN 38405-D26
Turbidity 0 - 999 NTU US-EPA Method 180.1
Zinc 0.1 - 6 PAR

Water quantity test

PARÁMETRO RANGO MÉTODO DE MEDIDA/NORMA
Tasa de infiltración acumulada (CIR) 0 - 100 (%) Infiltrómetro Cántabro Fijo (ICF)
Escorrentía superficial residual (RR) 0 - 100 (%) Infiltrómetro Cántabro Fijo (ICF)
Permeabilidad de la superficie porosa (KS) - (m/s) Permeámetro
Tasa de infiltración (IR) 46 - 924 (mm/h) Simulador de lluvia para firmes permeables (SFP)
Volumen de agua almacenado en la sub-base del firme permeable (V) 0 - 14.7 (l) Simulador de lluvia para firmes permeables (SFP)