The most comprehensive Water and Wastewater Laboratory in the Marmara Region, built by the Metropolitan Municipality, was opened with a grand ceremony. Mayor Ekrem Yüce said, “We hope that our laboratory, where we will monitor the quality of water with 300 different parameters determined by the regulation, will be beneficial to our city. "We will provide full control of water in Sakarya with our laboratory full of new devices with advanced technology," he said.
The Water and Wastewater Laboratory, built by Sakarya Metropolitan Municipality Water and Sewerage Administration (SASKİ) and will be the most comprehensive laboratory in the Marmara Region, was opened with a grand ceremony. SASKİ, which delivers Turkey's highest quality drinking water to the taps of the people of Sakarya, will be able to monitor the quality of water with 720 different parameters with its laboratory full of new devices with advanced technology in an area of 300 square meters located in the Hızırilyas Water Management Center.
Good luck to our city
In addition to Metropolitan Mayor Ekrem Yüce, Provincial Health Director Aziz Öğütlü, SASKİ General Manager Yiğit Turan, district mayors, NGO representatives, headmen, representatives of political parties, Metropolitan and SASKİ bureaucrats and many members of the press attended the opening ceremony of the giant facility. Mayor Ekrem Yüce, who cut the opening ribbon, said, "I hope that Hızırilyas Drinking Water and Wastewater Analysis Laboratory will be beneficial to our city." After the opening, the protocol and all participants visited the laboratory and received detailed information from the authorities.
Project that thinks about the future
Stating that they have full control of water in Sakarya and that they work scientifically by making the best use of technological opportunities, President Ekrem Yüce said, “When we saw that our current laboratory could no longer meet the needs, could not meet the accreditation conditions and did not have enough space for the purchase of new devices, we rolled up our sleeves. As the Metropolitan Municipality, we are adding the Hızırilyas Drinking Water and Wastewater Analysis Laboratory to the work we have implemented with our future in mind. The laboratory, which we opened and built on 720 floors with an area of 3 square meters, has a central ventilation system, UV disinfection and a clean air supply system with HEPA filters. We have a Microbiology Laboratory that complies with accreditation conditions to analyze various bacteria in drinking water and test water quality. "In addition to these, there are archives, consumable warehouses, specially ventilated liquid and powder chemical warehouses, chemical cabinets, fume hood systems and sample cabinets," he said.
international methods
Sharing detailed information about the laboratory, Mayor Yüce said, “In our laboratory, surface water, groundwater and sediment samples taken from the streams feeding Sapanca Lake, Akçay Dam and Basins and other drinking water sources, wastewater samples taken from the inlet and outlet waters of drinking water and wastewater treatment plants and sewage sludge samples, wastewater samples taken from industrial establishments that discharge into the sewer system, wastewater samples taken by our sampling teams from surrounding provinces within the scope of MELBES (Central Laboratory Determination System) carried out by the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change, and other samples received from public institutions or special requests. analyzes are carried out. Moreover, these analyzes are reported using internationally accepted standard methods,” he said.
Accredited laboratory
Continuing the details, President Yüce said, “Our laboratory was first accredited by TÜRKAK in 2008 for 18 parameters. As of today, it is accredited for a total of 63 parameters, including 62 within the scope of water, 1 within the scope of wastewater, 1 within the scope of sewage sludge, and 127 within the scope of sediment. Additionally, our laboratory has the Qualification Certificate from the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate, and as of May 2023, the total number of parameters is accredited. The number of parameters is 54. We will analyze approximately 300 parameters that need to be examined by Water Administrations within the scope of the Regulation on Water for Human Consumption and the Regulation on Water Quality and Purification for Drinking Water, and we plan to be accredited for these parameters. In order to monitor the competence of our laboratory, we participate in the Proficiency Tests and International Proficiency Tests conducted by the Environmental Reference Laboratory, and successful results are obtained. Approximately 4 to 500 samples come to our laboratory during the year. "Approximately 5 thousand to 600 thousand parameters are examined," he said.