Major research activities in the Stormwater, Water Supply and Wastewater Program focus on:

• Fundamental characterization of aqueous and particulate-phase contaminants including emerging contaminants: representative ambient monitoring, methodology and load quantification
• Sourcing and generation of aqueous and particulate-phase contaminants, physics and chemistry of contaminant transport and fate,
• Water contaminant control: systems, unit operation and processes, and materials development, in particular innovative mass transfer materials and low impact development materials,
• Water reuse as part of the urban water cycle: volumetric and contaminant load impacts,
• Unit operation and process modeling: scalable physical models and computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
• Integrated physical, chemical, biological and thermal treatment phenomena for water cycle components,
• Coupling fundamental monitoring and material balance testing with urban water modeling.

Research projects in the program have covered a wide range of environments including urban, infrastructure, surface water treatment, ambient, and industrial settings. Environmental Engineering Science Unit Operations and Process (UOP) Testing facilities are certified by TARP (Technology Acceptance Reciprocity Partnership) for prototype, full-scale and field testing of stormwater UOPs for certification by East Coast States.  An integrated series of courses is offered in this program, including Stormwater Systems Design, Advanced Water Treatment Process Design, Environmental Health, Biological Wastewater Treatment, Wastewater Treatment Design, Advanced Wastewater Treatment Operations, Activated Carbon, and Advanced Physicochemical Processes in Soils.