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For the fall semester, the Rapid Mix Contact Chamber team plans to continue continued last semester's work in optimizing improving the design efficiency of the contact chamber and minimize coagulant loss in general. The team will test even more chamber designs as well as test how other variables affect the formation of nanoclusters. Another side goal is to use the data to form a scalable, optimized design. The team will try to figure out if the flocculator tube could be more efficient testing with the different filtration mechanismsperformance in the rapid mixing of raw water and coagulant. The goal of the team was to determine the utility of contact chamber by performing the tests with and without the contact chamber using the coagulant properties which were found. The team ran different tests with a straight flocculator to find the relationship between headloss and nanocluster buildup and to measure the difference in the headloss values when the tests were run with and without the contact chamber. The team found that there was no significant reduction in the deposition of nanoclusters on the flocculator walls on adding a contact chamber unit to the apparatus.