Construction of a Waste Water System at the RMBL

落基山生物实验室（RMBL）是一个独立的，非营利的野外工作站，没有任何机构的附属关系。RMBL为那些希望在野外环境中学习高海拔生物学的人提供设施。每年约有160名科学家、学生和研究助理使用该设施约10，000个用户日。作为2005年最终确定详细设施总体规划的一部分，实验室进行了EPA批准的湿地划定，并绘制了外屋、化粪池和沥滤场的位置。对废水系统监管标准的审查表明，实验室的一些系统要么位于湿地，要么位于湿地/河岸缓冲区内。部分为了避免潜在的停止和停止令，RMBL聘请了一家工程公司，并一直在与县和州官员合作，设计一个计划，使实验室的系统符合规定，并管理未来的废物需求。有了这笔合同，RMBL将安装一个2800平方英尺的沥滤场，该沥滤场将有能力处理实验室大约一半的废水。由于我们的位置偏远，适当管理人类废物的能力是促进研究活动和最大限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已为本科生参与者举办了164次研究体验，其中包括56名属于科学领域代表性不足的少数群体的学生。在过去的五年里，实验室47%的首席研究员是女性。此外，在实验室进行的研究（并得到这些设施的支持）已被用于制定国家环境政策。

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.