When the credit requirements ask for a "one-time" potable water analysis to be conducted, what sort of time-frame is required for this to be completed? If I'm working on an EBOM project, does the analysis have to be completed during the performance period? The credit doesn't necessarily state when the analysis has to be completed, or how long the results are valid until another test would have to completed.
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March 13, 2013 - 10:28 am
Edward - For EBOM projects, the potable water analysis should be done within the last 5 years (5 years of submitting for certification) - the goal is to get an idea of what type of water the cooling tower is using in terms of dissolved solids, and how that water and system can be optimized, so the analysis doesn't need to be done very frequently in order to get to the result. Here's the EBOM pilot credit language, which mirrors the v4 draft proposal.