WATER QUALITY

AND TREATMENT
A Handbook of Community
Water Supplies

American Water Works Association

Raymond D. Letterman Technical Editor

Fifth Edition

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 CONTRIBUTORS

Appiah Amirtharajah, Ph.D., P.E. School of Civil Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technol-
ogy, Atlanta, Georgia (CHAP. 6)
Larry D. Benefield, Ph.D. Department of Civil Engineering, Auburn Univeristy, Alabama
(CHAP. 10)
Paul S. Berger U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C. (CHAP. 2)
Stephen W. Clark U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C. (CHAP. 1)
John L. Cleasby, Ph.D., P.E. Department of Civil and Construction Engineering, Iowa State
University, Ames, Iowa (CHAP. 8)
Dennis A. Clifford, Ph.D., P.E., DEE Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of Houston, Houston, Texas (CHAP. 9)
Perry D. Cohn, Ph.D., M.P.H. New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services,Trenton,
New Jersey (CHAP. 2)
David A. Cornwell, Ph.D., P.E. Environmental Engineering & Technology, Inc., Newport
News, Virginia (CHAP. 16)
Michael Cox, M.P.H. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C. (CHAP. 2)
John C. Crittenden, Ph.D., P.E., DEE Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan (CHAP. 5)
James K. Edzwald, Ph.D., P.E. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Uni-
versity of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts (CHAP. 7)
Edwin E. Geldreich, M.S. Consulting Microbiologist, Cincinnati, Ohio (CHAP. 18)
Ross Gregory Water Research Centre, Swindon, Wiltshire, England (CHAP. 7)
Charles N. Haas, Ph.D. Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (CHAP. 14)
David W. Hand, Ph.D. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Michigan Tech-
nological University, Houghton, Michigan (CHAP. 5)
Alan Hess, P.E., DEE Black & Veatch, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (CHAP. 3)
David R. Hokanson, M.S. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Michigan
Technological University, Houghton, Michigan (CHAP. 5)
Michael Horsley Black & Veatch, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (CHAP. 3)
John A. Hroncich United Water Management and Services Company, Harrington Park, New
Jersey (CHAP. 4)
Mark LeChevallier, Ph.D. American Water Works Service Co.,Voorhees, New Jersey (CHAP. 18)
Raymond D. Letterman, Ph.D., P.E. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York (CHAP. 6)
Gary S. Logsdon, D.Sc., P.E. Black & Veatch, Cincinnati, Ohio (CHAPS. 3, 8)
Joe M. Morgan, Ph.D. Department of Civil Engineering, Auburn University, Alabama
(CHAP. 10)
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Charles R. O'Melia, Ph.D., P.E. Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering,

The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland (CHAP. 6)
Frederick W. Pontius, P.E. American Water Works Association, Denver, Colorado (CHAP. 1)
David A. Reckhow, Ph.D. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts (CHAP. 12)
Thomas G. Reeves, P.E. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
(CHAP. 15)
Michael R. Schock U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, Ohio (CHAP. 17)
Philip C. Singer, Ph.D. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (CHAP. 12)
Stuart A. Smith, C.G.W.P. Smith-Comeskey Ground Water Science, Ada, Ohio (CHAP. 4)
Vernon L. Snoeyink, Ph.D. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois (CHAP. 13)
R. Scott Summers, Ph.D. Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, University of
Colorado, Boulder, Colorado (CHAP. 13)
J. S. Taylor, Ph.D., P.E. Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, University of
Central Florida, Orlando, Florida (CHAP. 11)
Mark Wiesner, Ph.D. Environmental Sciences and Engineering Department, Rice University,
Houston, Texas (CHAP. 11)
Thomas F. Zabel Water Research Centre, Medmenham, Oxfordshire, England (CHAP. 7)