Suburban Academy

Our e-Learning education resource, including video tutorials, video features, and e-reading.

At Suburban Testing Labs, we offer unlimited access to easy-to-understand e-learning resources to help your team grow your knowledge.  We will continuously add new videos to our e-learning library.

View our videos on our webpage using a PC or on youtube.com using any device, including your PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone, and Android phone.

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Careers at Suburban Testing Labs – Want to learn more about what it’s like inside the walls of our laboratory? Hear from seven Suburban Testing Labs professionals from various departments share their stories of starting their career with us, how they’ve grown, and what they most enjoy about working here.

ClientConnect Tutorial from Promium – Get the basics of navigating SuburbanClientConnect in this video tutorial produced by Promium.  Learn how you can view your orders, analysis status, results, and even use the new “search” feature.

Sample Documentation – Learn the essentials of sample documentation when collecting your samples.  Including tips and tricks to ensure your samples are processed quickly and accurately.

Flush to Finish – watch this informative video to understand the basics of how a wastewater treatment plant functions.

Fats, Oils, and Grease – learn how these contaminants create problems for our wastewater treatment plants.

EPA’s Industrial Pretreatment Program – find links to important regulatory information on EPA’s website that guides labs, POTW’s, and industries.

ICP vs ICP-MS Analysis – Learn the difference between ICP-MS and ICP-OES technology for analyzing metals with this helpful video from Suburban Academy.

RTCR in Under 5 Minutes – Learn what you need to know as a public water supplier about the Revised Total Coliform Rule (RTCR) in under 5 minutes.

Sampling Distribution Sites – Total Coliform Bacteria and e.Coli Sampling Best Practices from RCAP.

PADEP TNC Sample Siting Plan Creation – The Revised Total Coliform Rule (RTCR) requires all public water systems to complete a sample siting plan by April 1, 2016. This web tutorial explains each part of the sample siting plan template for a transient noncommunity water system. An example business is used to demonstrate proper completion of the form.

Chain of Custody Form – Good data quality starts with sample collection. And all elements of sample collection are recorded on the Chain of Custody Form. In this edition of our online video tutorial series, we will discuss some of the important elements of a Chain of custody Form.

TerraCore Kit Soil Sampling – Learn the proper technique for collecting a soil sample with a TerraCore sampling kit.

Youtube.com – Watch and subscribe to Suburban Testing Lab’s youtube.com channel.

Online Report Access Tutorials

ClientConnect Tutorial from Promium – Get the basics of navigating SuburbanClientConnect in this video tutorial produced by Promium.  Learn how you can view your orders, analysis status, results, and even use the new “search” feature.

Projects – Part 1 – Learn how you can view your orders in progress, analysis status, results, and even create EDD’s by exporting your data.

Methodology – how to search and find sampling, QC Limit, reporting limit, and method detection limit information for our analysis and analytes.

Projects – Part II – learn how to access your reports, including results, EDD’s, and Data Packages.