NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document
Theodorellys, Penny
From: Usbeck, Fred [[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 1:50 PM
To: [email protected]
Cc: Kehler, Diana
Subject: Silica / Dioxin samples
Ben,
We received the silica air samples yesterday (DEP Cleanup, 15-22906-0002) and have
them scheduled for completion on Monday, Oct. 14. We will fax the results to your office
after lunch on Monday. If you need to call about this sample delivery group you can
reference our work order number R02100360.
Regarding the dioxin wipe samples collected at 125 Cedar Street, I am hoping to have
the first set of results for you late this afternoon. I was told by our subcontract lab (which
is also a PSC facility in Burlington, Ontario) that they expect to have half of the samples
completed by Oct. 15/16 and the other half by the end of the month. High resolution
dioxin analysis is a tedious process with very strick QA/QC requirements and turn-
around times for analysis are typically 3-4 weeks for small groups of samples. In this
case, analysis of all 66 samples will take the better part of six weeks. We've divided the
66 samples into four work orders so that we can report results to you as they become
available. Our work order numbers for these samples are: R02090951, R02090957,
R02090971 and R02090972 (18, 18, 12, and 18 samples respectively). I will email
results to you as they become available.
I will not be in the laboratory on Monday, 10/14, however Diana Kehler (ext. 226) will be
looking after your samples. I will ask her to fax the silica results when they are ready.
You will not get any dioxin results on Monday - it is Thanksgiving in Canada, but we will
look for them on Tuesday.
If you have any questions please get back to me.
Thanks! Fred
Fred Usbeck, CIH
PSC Analytical Services
4418 Pottsville Pike
Reading, PA 19605
fusbeck(c~contactpsc.com
(610) 921-8833 ext. 224
NYC-WTC 000107607
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