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Areas of Research Funded by WERF.

• Biosolids
• Climate Change
• Conveyance Systems
• Decentralized Systems
• Nutrients
• Operations Optimization
• Pathogens & Human Health
• Security & Emergency Response
• Stormwater
• Strategic Asset Management
• Trace Organics
• Use Attainability Analysis
• Water Reuse

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• Automation & Sensors (14 items)
• Biological Treatment (9 items)
• Biosolids Land Application (59 items)
• Carbon Footprint (5 items)
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• Clarifiers (7 items)
• Collections Operations & Maintenance (11 items)
• Collections System Infrastructure (13 items)
• Combined Sewer Overflows (19 items)
• Compendium (6 items)
• Compounds of Emerging Concern (CECs) (18 items)
• Distributed Wastewater Systems (28 items)
• Early Upset Warning (2 items)
• Endocrine Disrupting Compounds (35 items)
• Energy Conservation (15 items)
• Energy Production (8 items)
• Fats, Oils & Grease (4 items)
• Fats, Roots, Oils & Grease (1 items)
• Full scale plant experience (3 items)
• Green Infrastructure (14 items)
• Low-Impact Development (12 items)
• Membrane Technology (32 items)
• Metals (14 items)
• Microbiology (1 items)
• Microconstituents (29 items)
• Modeling Wastewater Treatment (5 items)
• Molecular Methods (1 items)
• Molecular Methods for Pathogen Detection (16 items)
• Monitoring (60 items)
• Nitrogen (62 items)
• Odors & Aerosols (20 items)
• Onsite Systems (18 items)
• Operation & Maintenance (O&M) (16 items)
• Pathogen Detection (35 items)
• Pathogens & Indicators (66 items)
• Paul Busch Award (8 items)
• Pesticides (5 items)
• Pharmaceuticals & Personal Care Products (19 items)
• Phosphorous (12 items)
• Plant Optimization (50 items)
• Polymers (12 items)
• Public Health (68 items)
• Public Partnering (8 items)
• RDON (1 items)
• Regulatory (1 items)
• Residuals Management (30 items)
• Resource Recovery (16 items)
• Risk Assessment (31 items)
• Risk Communication (24 items)
• Sampling, Measurement & Analysis (40 items)
• Sanitary Sewer Overflows (14 items)
• Sewer Inspection & Condition Assessment Methods (19 items)
• Sewer Rehabilitation & Replacement (17 items)
• Sewers (11 items)
• Soil Absorption Fields (4 items)
• Solids (Sludge) Disinfection (13 items)
• Solids (Sludge) Reduction (26 items)
• Solids (Sludge) Treatment (51 items)
• Stormwater Best Management Practices (BMPs) (49 items)
• Stormwater Source Identification & Control (19 items)
• Surface Water Quality (78 items)
• Sustainable Water Resources Management (50 items)
• Total Maximum Daily Loads (43 items)
• Trace Organic Compounds (32 items)
• Treatment Operations & Maintenance (51 items)
• Treatment System Infrastructure (15 items)
• Wastewater Disinfection (23 items)
• Wastewater Treatment Modeling (18 items)
• Wastewater Treatment Plant Design (11 items)
• Wastewater Treatment Technologies (136 items)
• Water Quality Criteria (51 items)
• Water Quality Modeling (27 items)
• Water Reuse (30 items)
• Watershed Trading (16 items)
• Whole Effluent Toxicity (34 items)
• Workshops (21 items)

• Bioassessment: A Tool for Managing Urban Aquatic Life Uses for Urban Streams
• Biotic Ligand Model Users Guide and Reference Model for Copper
• Develop and Demonstrate Fundamental Basis For Selectors to Improve Activated Sludge Settleability and Selector Diagnostic Tools
• Development of a Tool to Prioritize Sewer Inspections (SCRAPS)
• Effective Practices for Sanitary Sewer and Collection System Operations and Maintenance
• Emergency Communications with your Local Government and Community
• Factors Affecting the Performance of Primary Treatment in Decentralized Wastewater Systems
• Full Cost Accounting Protocol for Biosolids Management
• International Best Management Practices Database
• LCAMER - An Assessment Tool for Managing Cost-Effective Energy Recovery From Anaerobically Digested Wastewater Solids
• Manual of Good Practice for Biosolids
• Membrane Technology: Feasibility of Solid/Liquid Separation in Wastewater Treatment
• Membrane Treatment of Secondary Effluent for Subsequent Use
• Microbial Risk Assessment Interface Tool and User Documentation Guide
• Performance and Whole Life Costs of BMPs and SUDS
• Sustainable Infrastructure Management Program Learning Environment (SIMPLE)
• Tools for Rating the Capacity of Activated Sludge Plants
• Water Quality Models: A Survey and Assessment