With the large volume of snowmelt available to flush the area each year, it's pretty unlikely that surface water quality will be impacted. It may be accumulating at depth in rock cracks and the tons of urine are quite "noticeable", but I doubt it will ever show up as a problem in typical surface water testing. By the way, he should have been in a hurry to get the samples to the lab for testing that day, which could be challenging.
HOLD TIMES
Fecal coliforms must be run within 6 hours of sample collection.
Total coliforms, E. coli, Fecal streptococcus, Sewage Screen, Legionella sp., and Heterotrophic Plate Count samples need to be run within 24 hours of sample collection.
If hold times are exceeded results are invalid and this will be noted on reports.
All samples must be shipped cold, not frozen and should remain up right, use ice packs, not soda bottles filled with frozen water, bags of ice or just loose ice. Samples that are not shipped properly could end up getting contaminated or rejected.
