Construction of a Waste Water System at the RMBL

人民银行污水处理厂污水处理系统建设

• 批准号: 0731346
• 负责人: Ian Billick
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-12-01 至 2010-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0731346&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Construction; Waste; Water; System; RMBL

The Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (RMBL) is an independent, nonprofit field station with no institutional affiliation. The RMBL provides facilities for those who wish to study high-altitude biology in a field setting. The facility is used by approximately 160 scientists, students, and research assistants for roughly 10,000 user-days each year. As part of finalizing a detailed facilities master plan in 2005 the Lab conducted an EPA-approved wetlands delineation and mapped the locations of its outhouses, septic tanks, and leach fields. A review of regulatory standards for waste water systems indicated that some of the Lab's systems were either in wetlands, or within wetland/riparian buffer zones. In part to avoid a potential cease and desist order, the RMBL has hired an engineering firm and has been working with county and state officials to design a plan for bringing the Lab's system into compliance and for managing future waste demands. With this award the RMBL will install a 2800 square foot leach field that will have the capacity to process approximately half of the Lab's waste water. Because of our remote location, the ability to appropriately manage human waste is a necessary part of facilitating research activities and minimizing the impact of the Lab's infrastructure on research. The RMBL has worked to diversify the scientific community. The RMBL has hosted 164 Research Experience for Undergraduate participants since 1991, including 56 students that belong to minority groups underrepresented in the sciences. Forty-seven percent of the lead investigators at the Lab in the last five years have been women. Additionally, research conducted at the Lab (and supported by these facilities) has been used for making national environmental policy.

落基山生物实验室（RMBL）是一个独立的非营利性现场站，没有机构隶属关系。 RMBL为那些希望在现场环境中学习高海拔生物学的人提供了设施。该设施每年大约有160名科学家，学生和研究助理使用大约10,000个用户日。作为最终确定2005年详细设施总体规划的一部分，该实验室进行了经过EPA批准的湿地描绘，并绘制了其外屋，化粪池和Leach领域的位置。对废水系统的监管标准的综述表明，该实验室的某些系统要么在湿地，要么在湿地/河岸缓冲区中。在某种程度上，为了避免潜在的停止和停止命令，RMBL聘请了一家工程公司，并一直与县和州官员合作设计了一项计划，以使实验室的系统合规并管理未来的废物需求。通过此奖项，RMBL将安装一个2800平方英尺的浸出场，该场将有能力处理大约一半的废水。由于我们偏远的位置，适当管理人类废物的能力是促进研究活动并最大程度地减少实验室基础设施对研究的影响的必要组成部分。 RMBL致力于使科学界多样化。自1991年以来，RMBL已为本科参与者提供了164项研究经验，其中包括56名属于科学中代表性不足的少数群体的学生。在过去五年中，该实验室的主要研究人员中有47％是女性。此外，在实验室进行的研究（并在这些设施的支持下）已用于制定国家环境政策。