The Râmnicu Vâlcea branch meets the requirements regarding controlling and assessing of environmental pollution for the Oltenia region. Current research and service directions are:

• methodologies for the integrated investigation of the environmental risk based on the pollution indices, as a decision basis for the measures necessary to remove/reduce it;
• assessment of the impact of pollution with hazardous/priority hazardous substances (organochlorine substances, petroleum, heavy metals) on soil/water/sediment ecosystems;
• the development of new electrochemical methods/ methodologies for the rapid determination of the concentration of heavy metals in aqueous media;
• integrated water management at the level of urban agglomerations based on the sustainable water concept (SUWM);
• research on the utilization of sludge resulting from urban sewage treatment plants;
• experimental studies on the determination of the ecotoxicity of geothermal waters.