Wolman and John C. Geyer were consulting engineers for the city of Frederick, Maryland in 1954. A copy of their report on the water supply system of Frederick and some research material are in this series.

Abel Wolman served as chairman of the panel of consultants to E.I. duPont de Nemours & Company for their Bedrock Storage Project on the Savannah River from 1968-1972. The project located near Aiken, S.C. was intended to be a "tank farm" for millions of gallons of high-level radioactive wastes. The plan was to pump the wastes into a man-made cavern below the Tuscaloosa Aquifer. The series is largely technical reports on the storage of radio-active wastes with some correspondence.

Wolman was a consultant to the state of New Jersey for a master water plan from 1975 until 1980. The papers include some correspondence (1975), proposals (1976) submitted by engineering firms, and the results of a lengthy review process. There were many task forces divided to study various aspects of the plan. These task forces submitted "Interim Outputs for Review Purposes" from 1977 to 1980. Copies of these with Wolman's annotations are included.

Wolman was chairman of the Board of Consultants to the Middlesex County Sewerage Authority from 1967-71. The papers include correspondence and reports.

Wolman served as chairman of the Board of Consultants to the Ocean County Sewerage Authority from 1971-74. Included in the papers are environmental assessment reports and a variety of studies by the consulting engineering firm of Fellows, Read & Weber, Inc. Toms River, N.J.

From 1954 until 1959 Wolman was a consulting engineer for the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company. He was concerned with controlling the industrial waste discharged into the Potomac River. The papers consist of reports and correspondence (1954-59) with a few personal notes from individuals at the company from 1965, 1971, and 1972.

From 1963-66 Wolman was chairman of the board of consultants to the National Sanitation Foundation in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The consultants conducted the Southeastern Michigan Sewerage and Drain Study. This covered Detroit and the six counties in southeastern Michigan. The final report and correspondence are in this series. The correspondence (1964-76) deals with the study, and there is also correspondence (1967-73) with Henry F. Vaughan of the National Sanitation Foundation concerning Detroit. Also included is a 1974 paper Wolman wrote on the 10 years since the National Sanitation Foundation study.

Wolman continued his interest in southeastern Michigan, especially Wayne County and the Huron River area. There is correspondence (1974-84) with Duane Egeland of the Wayne County Road Commissioners as well as assessment reports on the area.

In 1956 Abel Wolman became a consultant to the Miami Conservancy District of Ohio. The early material consists of Wolman's first report "Utilization and Conservation of the Water Resources of the Miami River Basin" (1957), correspondence (1957- 73) and reports. Wolman remained associated with the Conservancy until his death, and there is material relating to this work up through 1988. This material has not been completely sorted.

Wolman was a consulting engineer for the cities of Jacksonville and Sanford, Florida in 1953. Copies of the two final reports on sewerage and sewage disposal in these cities as well as some research materials are in this series.

Wolman was a consultant to the Tennessee Valley Authority from 1939 until 1976. The majority of his work dealt with studies of recreational sanitation in the 1940s, and the largest part of these papers deal with this topic. The correspondence, memos, minutes, reports and supplementary printed material were filed chronologically by Wolman, and this arrangement has been retained.

Wolman was a consulting engineer for the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC) from 1956 until 1969 and chairman of a board of consultants to the Regional Sanitary Advisory Board of the Metropolitan Council of Governments from 1964-68. This series contains copies of reports prepared by Wolman in 1961, 1962, 1967, and 1971 for these two agencies.

Wolman was a Federal member of this Commission for ten years. Appointed by President Roosevelt in 1940, he resigned in 1950 but remained a member of two advisory committees: the Technical Committee and chair of the Steering Committee for the Industrial Wastes Investigation on the Upper Potomac. This series has only a small amount of material relating to Wolman's work as a Commissioner in 1949 and 1950.

In 1958 Wolman and Dr. John C. Geyer prepared a report on the future of the Commission. It was entitled "Consultants Report to the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin: Future Activities and Compact Revision of the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin." A copy of the final version of the report is in this series.

Wolman, John C. Geyer and Edwin E. Pyatt also prepared a report for the Commission in 1957 entitled "A Clean Potomac River." Drafts and a final copy of the report along with some correspondence and printed material are in this series.

For more material on the Potomac River see the description of the Melvin Scheidt Papers.

In 1950 Wolman was appointed to a panel of consultants to study the water policy and management of New York City. This panel was part of the Mayor's Committee on Management Survey of the City of New York. The materials include correspondence and memos among the panel members, drafts and the final report, and research data used in making the recommendations in the final report. The final report was controversial, and the opposing views are detailed in this series.

This Board was established in November 1943 and Wolman appointed as the sanitary engineer. The Board submitted a report in March 1945, and the Board was made permanent in November of that year. In 1946 at the time of the Board's second report, Wolman was the Board's chairman.

The papers are correspondence, minutes, Board reports, and research materials especially data reports. Woman collected many of the Board's records such as correspondence and reports into two binders. These are in Box 6.6. The data reports and some additional correspondence was filed chronologically by Wolman, and this system was retained.

Abel Wolman participated in several projects and committees for Israel. He filed these materials together, and this arrangement has been retained. In 1946 Wolman made a presentation on "A Plan for Irrigation, Water Supply, and Hydroelectric Development in Palestine" to the Anglo-American Commission of Inquiry on Palestine. An outline of his remarks is in Box 6.34.

Wolman was hired several times by the Israel Ministry of Agriculture. In 1950, he served on the Technical Committee for the National Irrigation and Power Scheme. There is a copy of Wolman's memorandum and some correspondence. Several times the Ministry of Agriculture consulted Wolman on water development programs. There are minutes and correspondence (1965) from a meeting of the Board of Consultants for the Israel Water Development Program. In 1972, Wolman again participated in a Board of Review for the Israel Water Resources Development and Utilization Program. There are correspondence, minutes, and reports (1972-73). There is also material on the International Conference on Water Pollution Research where Wolman was to present the keynote address. He was unable to attend, but there is correspondence about papers and a citation presented to him. Wolman served again as Chairman of the Board of Review of the Israel Water Resources Management program in 1983. There is correspondence and reports.

Abel Wolman was interested in the project to connect the Mediterranean Sea with the Dead Sea, and in 1980 was appointed by Tel Aviv University Chairman of the Board to review the sea-to-sea project. There is correspondence and reports (1980-81). There is some background material (1946-50s) on the Mediterranean Sea diversion.

Wolman testified twice in the U.S. Senate on proposals affecting Israel. In 1969 there is correspondence and background material used in testimony on a bill to fund a prototype desalting plant in Israel. In 1978 Wolman reviewed a proposal on water development in the Sinai for Senator Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.

Wolman also kept a file of general correspondence (1967-88) dealing with Israel. Much of this is to colleagues, especially Hillel I. Shuval at the Hebrew University and Aaron Wiener of Tahal. Both were consulting engineers with whom Wolman frequently worked.

Other material can be found in series 7. This deals with the Technicon in Box 7.59 and 7.60 and the WHO consulting project in Ghana with Tahal in Box 7.31.

Wolman served as a consultant to the Taiwan National Government on water supply in Taipei in 1962 and 1974-75. This series contains material collected on his trips to Taipei.

In 1937 a rivers and harbors construction, repair and preservation act was passed by the U.S. Congress. Part of this act authorized the Secretary of War "to cause a survey to be made of the Ohio River and its tributaries to ascertain what pollutive substances are being deposited...and...determining the most feasible method of correcting and eliminating the pollution of these streams." The data for the survey was collected by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Public Health Service.

Abel Wolman was a member of the committee which analyzed the collected data and prepared the final report. His files contain correspondence, minutes, and monthly reports from the Engineers and the Public Health Service. These are filed chronologically. Also included are copies of the many studies prepared on the river and the final report.

The National Resources Planning Board was an agency of the Executive Office of the President. Wolman served as the chairman of the Water Resources Committee from 1935 to 1941. The records include correspondence, minutes, and many reports. The committee was concerned with drainage basins, flood control and water pollution. A list of the reports is in the container list. Copies of the published reports of the Water Resources Committee are in the Eisenhower stacks.

Wolman was chairman of the Stream Pollution Committee of the Construction League of America from 1936 to 1943. There is material from this work although there is much correspondence with the National Resources Planning Board as well.

From 1966 to 1969 Wolman was a member of NASA's Research and Technology Advisory Committee on Biotechnology and Human Research. He rarely attended the meetings. Included here are correspondence, copies of agendas, and background material for meetings.

Abel Wolman was the Project Director for the preparation of a white paper on pollution 1965-66. He also participated in the House hearings. There is correspondence and the report. In 1968 the Committee again hired Wolman to continue to advise them on pollution. He participated in a colloquium on a national policy for the environment.

In 1959 Wolman was hired as a consultant by the Senate Select Committee on National Water Resources to prepare a report on the technical means of improving water supplies and utilization by means of waste water salvage. Theodore Schaad was the staff director of the Committee. There is a copy of the contract, and the report is in Series 2 number 169.

In 1969 Edmund S. Muskie, chair of the Senate Committee on Government Operations asked Wolman to testify on behalf of the creation of the Senate Select Committee on Technology and the Human Environment. Wolman was unable to do so.

During 1981 Wolman served on the Defense Science Board's Water Support Task Force. Wolman's group studied water consumption in an arid environment. The files include correspondence and reports.

Wolman occasionally reviewed projects for the EPA. In 1983 he reviewed the drinking water chapter of the EPA research strategy document. Most of the correspondence is information about the EPA.

In 1962 Wolman served as the OST representative on the Federal Council on Science and Technology's Task Group on Water Resources Research. There is correspondence, drafts and the final report. This was a study President Kennedy asked the National Academy of Science to undertake. Wolman worked with Theodore M. Schaad.

In 1963 for the OST Wolman visited Arizona to assess the problems of salinity in the Colorado River, the border between the U.S. and Mexico. Wolman was the chairman of the Board of Technical Advisors for the International Boundary Commission dealing with the Colorado River from 1976 to 1979. There is a notebook of minutes, maps, and supporting documents from 1976.

Wolman served on an OST panel of water resources research beginning in 1964, and in 1967 he was appointed to the Panel on Water Resources Policy and Institutions. There is correspondence and reports.

Other assignments through the Executive Office of the President which are documented include participation in 1961 on the Life Sciences Panel's Ad Hoc Committee on Environmental Health. Wolman also helped prepare the Council on Environmental Quality's paper on marine pollution. From 1967 to 1971 Wolman served as a consultant to OST's National Council on Marine Resources and Engineering Development. He previewed the contents of annual report of the President on Marine Resources and Engineering.

From 1969 to 1973 Wolman served as a consultant to the Water Pollution Control Panel of the National Water Commission whose executive director was Theodore M. Schaad. There is correspondence, minutes and drafts of reports. There is also some correspondence concerning a talk by Abel Wolman to the White House fellows in 1970.

In 1955 Abel Wolman was appointed to the Advisory Panel for Engineering Sciences of the NSF. Much of this series deals with minutes and reports of this panel (1955-57). There is some correspondence during the period 1960-80 when Wolman reviewed some proposals and gave recommendations for the National Medal of Science. In 1983 Wolman presented a paper "Public Health Effects of Contaminated Ground Water" at a NSF workshop. Copies of the paper, comments, and correspondence are in this box.

Wolman served as a member of the Public Health Services's National Advisory Committee on Radiation (NACOR) from 1957 until 1960. His material on NACOR dates from 1958 to 1966.

Wolman was an advisor on the safe use of radiation serving on two committees for the Atomic Energy Commission. In 1957 the AEC established the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS). Wolman served on this committee from its inception until 1961. The records (1957-61) are largely correspondence, minutes, and reports on reactors. Wolman also served on the AEC's Atomic Safety and Licensing Board from 1960 until 1972. The records for this work from 1963-77 are in this collection. There is also some background material dating from 1940 which has not been sorted.

Wolman was a member of the Board of Consultants for the Engineers' North Atlantic Regional Water Resources Study from 1966 to 1978. There is correspondence and Wolman's copy of the report.

Wolman also reviewed the Corps' "Metropolitan Washington Area Water Supply Study" also known as the Potomac River Study. There is correspondence, especially with Myron B. Fiering (1975-86) and Wolman's copy of the report.

Wolman served as an advisor to the U.S. Geological Survey from 1943 to 1967. The bulk of the material regards the Advisory Committee to the Survey 1950-67.

Wolman served on the Agency for International Development's Advisory Committee on Research from its inception in 1963 until 1975. The records include correspondence and minutes. In 1973 Wolman served on the ad hoc committee on environmental health to recommend strategic directions for AID. Included are the correspondence and report.

In 1979 Wolman chaired the Water and Health Panel for AID. They prepared "A Panel Report to the U.S. Agency for International Development on Sanitary Services during 1980-1990." This report outlined principles for AID to follow in participating in the World Health Organization's International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade (IDWSSD). There is correspondence, minutes and the report. There is some follow-up correspondence (1980-83) indicating that the report was not followed. More information on the IDWSSD can be found with the WHO material in Box 7.30.

This series also includes a history of "Community Water Supply Activity under AID and Its Predecessor Agencies" which covers the period [1941-60s].

Abel Wolman served as a consultant for the ICA. In 1959 he was a member of an ICA mission to South America, and there are papers relating to Santiago, Chile in 1958. In 1960 Wolman was chairman of the Johns Hopkins University team to evaluate the Brazilian health system. Included is correspondence and the report.

Wolman also participated in the Panel of Expert Consultants on Sanitary Engineering which dealt with the issue of community water supply programs. There is background material, an agenda for a meeting in 1959, and the transcript for a meeting in 1960.

The WHO material has not been analyzed. It documents Wolman's work on the Expert Committee on Environmental Sanitation (1949-51) and his participation in the Community Water Supply study (1966-74) and the International Drinking Water and Sanitation Decade (1979-84).

Wolman frequently made site visits for WHO including Manila (1956, 1967), Calcutta (1960, 1974), Taiwan (1962, 1967), Russia (1966), Kenya (1968), Kuala Lumpur (1968), and Ghana (1964, 1967-68). Papers from these studies are in this series.

Wolman often attended WHO assemblies in Geneva, and there is material on his trips in 1978 and 1985. He also participated in a conference on the Biosphere (1968) and one on Urban Health Administration held in Manila in 1968. In 1988 Abel Wolman became the first engineer to be awarded the WHO "Health for All by 2000" medal.

Wolman was active in several divisions of the Pan-American Health Organization. He was chairman of the Permanent Sanitary Engineering Committee from 1942-60. He served on the Advisory Committee on Medical Research 1963-75. He was President of the Pan American Health and Education Foundation from 1970 until 1983. There is also material on a 1965 conference on "Water Supplies in the Americas" and one in 1979 on "Strategies for Extending and Improving Potable Water Supply and Excreta Disposal Services during the Decade of the 1980s." There are 3 boxes of PAHO material to be sorted.

Wolman was very active in the various programs of the National Academy of Sciences either for the National Research Council or the National Academy of Engineering. From 1942 until 1960 Wolman was chairman of the Advisory Committee on Sanitary Engineering and the Environment for the National Research Council's Division on Medical Sciences. During WW II this committee advised the military on sanitary problems. In this series are the reports prepared for the Army. In 1947 the committee was reconstituted again with Wolman as the chair in which capacity he served until 1961. There are minutes, reports, and correspondence documenting this work.

From 1950 to 1956 Wolman served on the Medical Sciences Executive Committee. In these papers are some minutes and correspondence of other committees in the Medical Sciences Division which Wolman was to review as a member of the Executive Committee.

From 1956 until 1962 Wolman served on the NAS Committee on the Dispersal and Disposal of Radioactive Wastes. There is a transcript of the first meeting of the Study Group on Disposal of Radioactive Wastes February 24, 1956, correspondence, and reports.

With the creation of the National Academy of Engineering in 1964, most of Wolman's NAS work dealt with that branch. However, Wolman's expertise in international health planning was tapped in 1977-78 when he served on the NAS Institute of Medicine's Committee on International Health. This is documented with correspondence, minutes, and reports (1977-78). In the general NAS files (1966-89) there is material on some short-lived committees and project reviews completed by Wolman. Wolman participated in a workshop at Woods Hole in 1987 sponsored by the Committee for Infrastructure Innovation.

The National Academy of Engineering was created in 1964, and Wolman's work with the NAE dates from 1964. There are records (1967-74) on the NAE Committee on Social and Behavioral Urban Research. Wolman served for 5 years (1970-75) on the NAE's Committee on Public Engineering Policy (COPEP). Much of this correspondence, reports and minutes deals with long-range planning and studying priorities for Research Applied to National Needs (RANN). Wolman also served on the NAE Project Committee (1969-72) which was also a planning group. One of their activities was to sponsor a workshop (1973) in San Francisco on the Simulation of Earthquake Effects on Structures. The correspondence and final report of this workshop are in this series.

Wolman as chairman of the Maryland State Planning Commission oversaw the Works Progress Administration's Community Improvement Appraisal in 1938. The series is largely printed material on the results of the Appraisal.

From 1961 until 1972 Wolman served as chairman of the Radiation Control Advisory Board of Maryland's Department of Health. The records 1961-72 are correspondence and reports.

Wolman was involved with the American Water Works Association's committee which in 1964 drafted specifications for pipe. Copies of the correspondence and specifications are included.

Wolman served as Consultant Director for the Association of American Railroads's Joint Committee on Railway Sanitation. The materials include correspondence and technical reports.

Resources for the Future was a non-profit corporation for research and education concerning the development, conservation, and use of natural resources. It was founded in 1952, and in 1953 sponsored a Mid-Century Conference on Resources of the Future. Wolman was on the Steering Committee of the Section on Water Resource Problems. Much of the material deals with this conference.

Wolman was in contact with RFF people through 1986 commenting on their papers especially Allen V. Kneese's "Water Polution: Economic Aspects and Research Needs." Wolman also participated in RFF forums; one in 1961 on pollution abatement in the Ruhr region of West Germany and one in 1958 where he commented on Luther Gulick's paper "Urban Growth and Natural Resources."

Abel Wolman was active in Technicon affairs from 1955 until his death although most of the material dates from 1964 to 1982. In 1965 Wolman was re-elected to a three year term as an alternate member of Technicon's Board of Governors. Wolman was especially interested in Sanitary Engineering, and gave a speech dedicating the Sanitary Engineering Laboratories in 1964. He was often consulted on appointments to the department, and in 1973 the Dr. Abel Wolman Chair in Sanitary Engineering at the Technicon was dedicated. Wolman was also active in the American Technicon Society, and there is correspondence and reports from this work.

Wolman was one of the founding members of the Environment Assessment Council. The papers include correspondence leading up to the founding and reports of the Council. Much of the correspondence was with Dr. Ruth Patrick of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia.