Standards

This standard sets out guidelines parameters which will be used to monitor the effluent quality for different types of industries operating in Guyana.  This standard does not apply to industrial operations of mining, forestry operations and agricultural infiltration, seepage and run-off.  This standard is expected to operate under the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations on Water Quality Management

This standard specifies legal metrology requirements for labelled packaged commodities with constant nominal content and subject to international trade.  It also covers sampling plans for net content verification of goods declared in units of mass or volume.

This Recommendation specifies

·    legal metrology requirements for prepackaged products (also called prepackaged commodities or prepackaged goods) labeled in predetermined constant nominal quantities of mass, volume, linear measure, area, or count, and

·         sampling plans and procedures for use by legal metrology officials in verifying the quantity of product in prepackages.

NOTE:  The sampling plans are not recommended for use in the quantity control processes of the packer.

This standard prescribes methods of sampling and testing for Biochemical Oxygen Demand five days (BOD₅) in water and wastewater.  It shall be read in conjunction with the latest version of GYS 207 “Interim guidelines for industrial effluent discharge into the environment.”

 This standard prescribes methods of sampling and testing for solids in water and wastewater.

This standard prescribes methods of sampling and testing for, dissolved oxygen in water and wastewater.  It shall be read in conjunction with latest edition of GYS 207, “Interim guidelines for industrial effluent discharge into the environment.

This standard prescribes methods of sampling and testing for nitrogen in water and wastewater. This standard shall be read in conjunction with GYS 207:2002, “Interim guidelines for industrial effluent discharge into the environment”.

This standard prescribes methods of sampling and testing for chloride in waste and waste water. It shall be read in conjunction with the latest version of GYS 207, “Interim guidelines for industrial effluent discharge into the environment”.

This standard prescribes methods of sampling and testing for surfactants in water and wastewater. This standard shall be read in conjunction with the latest edition of GYS 207, “Interim guidelines for industrial effluent discharge into the environment.”

This standard prescribes methods of sampling and testing for phenols in water and wastewater. This standard shall be read in conjunction with the latest edition of GYS 207, “Interim guidelines for industries effluent discharge into the environment”.