As part of the drinking water treatment process, surface water is purified by removing suspended solids and organic matter through coagulation, flocculation, sedimentation, and filtration, which creates a residual waste stream of “sludge." In recent years, Windham Water Works (WWW) has noticed their sludge drying beds are filling up close to capacity towards the end of the operational year. While there is no immediate threat or serious problem posed, the objective of ENVE 06 is addressing this sludge processing issue by first analyzing and quantifying their sludge process, then designing a solution to help manage long term sludge dewatering capability. After researching potential solutions and considering criteria of increased sludge processing ability, minimal change to current operations, overall project costs, expansion onto adjacent land, and general sustainability, our final design solution involves installing a belt press to dewater a fraction of the daily sludge produced and reduce load on the current drying beds while also having potential to dewater a large percentage of all sludge produced. The machine is designed to take 50% of WWW's daily sludge production, although it theoretically can take up to 100%. Assuming the dilute sludge is around 2% solids and one half of daily sludge production, we estimate the belt press will process 1560 GPD of incoming sludge, create 136 GPD of sludge cake at 23% solids, and send 1424 GPD of water back to the lagoons where it can be released downstream.