EE&T is extremely active in national residuals committees. Our personnel have served on the AWWA Research Foundation Residuals Management Committee for well over a decade, including several chair positions. In total, EE&T has published and presented over 65 expert papers on residuals management. Awwa Research Foundation documents specifically focussing on water residuals prepared by EE&T and staff include:

• Handbook of Practice: Water Treatment Plant Waste Management
• Water Plant Sludge Landfilling
• Slib, Schlamm, Sludge
• Nonmechanical Dewatering of Water Plant Residuals
• Impacts of Recycle Streams on Finished Water
• Characterization of GAC Wastes
• Treatment Methods for Giardia and Cryptosporidium from Spent Filter Backwash Water
• Marketing Water Treatment Plant Residuals
• Treatment Options for Removal of Giardia, Cryptosporidium and Other Contaminants from Recycled Backwash Water
• Treatment of Arsenic Residuals from Drinking Water Removal Processes
• Treatment of MF and UF Residuals for Removal of Cryptosporidium, Viruses, and Other Contaminants Prior to Recycle
• Treatment Disposal of Waste Resulting from Arsenic Removal Processes

EE&T personnel also served as one of three consultants to the National Drinking Water Advisory Council (NDWAC) in 2001 on developing national costs for a lowered arsenic MCL. This work focussed on residuals quantities and disposal costs for all arsenic removal technologies.