Lab analysis packages for cooling tower chemistry, discharge streams, and stormwater runoff. Order a kit, ship a sample with documented chain of custody, and get a digital report your operations team can act on.
EPA methods. Documented chain of custody. Digital reports in 5-7 business days.
Loop, Outfall, Yard
A data center's water chemistry gets tested at three points: the cooling loop, the discharge outfall, and stormwater runoff. Each KELP package below covers one stream with a defined analyte panel.
Loop chemistry decides how far you can push cycles of concentration before scale and corrosion start taking equipment time. The panel tracks the same numbers your treatment program doses against.
Blowdown carries the loop's chemistry off site, where a POTW pretreatment agreement or an NPDES permit sets the terms. The panel covers the parameter families most discharge permits track.
Generator yards, fuel storage, and exposed industrial areas drain under a stormwater general permit. The panel follows EPA Multi-Sector General Permit benchmark-monitoring practice.
Cooling loop, discharge outfall, and stormwater runoff, each with its own defined panel
In the premium discharge panel, every one named before you order
Business days from lab receipt to a digital report your operations team can act on
Choose Your Test
The industry's first lab testing packages built specifically for data centers, with every analyte and every price published before you order. All packages follow EPA methods and deliver digital results in 5-7 business days of lab receipt.
Best for: Facilities managing blowdown schedules, cycles of concentration, and scale and corrosion control in the cooling loop.
Best for: Facilities with a discharge outfall feeding a POTW or receiving water that want documented operational data alongside their permit sampling schedule.
Best for: Facilities characterizing stormwater runoff from generator yards, fuel storage, and other exposed industrial areas.
All packages include a prepaid return shipping label and chain-of-custody form. Digital report delivered within 5-7 business days of lab receipt.
Simple Process
The kit ships with sample bottles, instructions, a chain-of-custody form, and a prepaid return label.
Grab-sample from the specified port: the blowdown line for cooling, the outfall or designated point for discharge.
Ship the same day you sample. The digital report arrives 5 to 7 business days after the lab receives it.
FAQ
23 analytes for $629, in three groups: scaling and corrosion indicators (pH, conductivity, TDS, total hardness, alkalinity), anions and nutrients (chloride, sulfate, nitrate, nitrite, orthophosphate), and a 13-metal panel by EPA Method 200.8 covering copper, zinc, iron, manganese, aluminum, nickel, lead, sodium, calcium, magnesium, potassium, silicon, and molybdenum. The panel is built for blowdown and cycles-of-concentration decisions: the same numbers your treatment program is dosing against.
27 analytes for $949, covering the parameter families most data center discharge permits track. Physical characterization comes from pH, temperature, total residual chlorine, conductivity, TDS, and TSS. Oxygen demand and nutrient load come from COD, BOD, ammonia-N, total phosphorus, nitrate, and nitrite. Oil and grease runs by EPA Method 1664A. The metals panel spans the RCRA 8 (silver, arsenic, barium, cadmium, total chromium, mercury, lead, selenium) plus copper, zinc, nickel, iron, manganese, and molybdenum.
Yes. The Data Center Stormwater Package, $469, is built around EPA Multi-Sector General Permit benchmark-monitoring practice: pH, total suspended solids, COD, nitrate + nitrite, oil and grease by EPA Method 1664A, and a six-metal benchmark panel (aluminum, copper, iron, lead, zinc, nickel). It orders and ships the same way as the other packages, with the kit, chain-of-custody form, and prepaid return label included.
The full 27-analyte Discharge Monitoring panel plus a 40-compound PFAS panel, for $1,649. Most discharge permits are silent on PFAS; operators order this package to hold a documented PFAS baseline on the outfall before anyone asks for one.
KELP reports serve as operational monitoring and a pre-compliance baseline. Formal permit submissions run through the laboratory your permit designates, and most programs spell out those requirements in the permit itself.
Operators use KELP data to watch discharge chemistry between formal sampling events, to verify a treatment change did what it was supposed to, and to walk into a scheduled compliance event already knowing the numbers.
Digital reports arrive 5 to 7 business days after the lab receives your sample, for all three packages. The Discharge Monitoring Package includes a BOD analysis with a five-day incubation period set by the method, which is why the window runs to seven. Each digital report lists every analyte with its result, its unit, and the method used.
The kit arrives with labeled sample bottles, step-by-step instructions for your package's sampling point, a chain-of-custody form, and a prepaid return label. Collect a grab sample from the specified port, complete the form, and ship the same day.
Metals run by EPA Method 200.8 (ICP-MS). Oil and grease runs by EPA Method 1664A. Demand and nutrient analyses follow the applicable standard methods, and every report cites the method used for each analyte alongside the result, with chain of custody documented from bottle to report.
Common practice is a baseline test first, a follow-up after any treatment-chemistry change, and then a recurring interval. Quarterly is the cadence operators most often choose for lab verification; facilities running tighter treatment programs, or higher cycles of concentration, tend to move to monthly.
The choice follows the stream you need to characterize. The Cooling Water Package ($629) reads the loop your treatment program manages. The Discharge Monitoring Package ($949) characterizes what leaves the outfall. A facility that manages its own cooling chemistry and holds a pretreatment agreement gets a different answer from each, and many order both to see the loop and the outfall side by side. For volume or multi-site pricing, write to ketoslabinfo@ketos.co.