Construction of a Waste Water System at the RMBL

落基山生物实验室（RMBL）是一个独立的、非营利性的野外试验站，没有隶属机构。为希望在野外环境中学习高原生物学的学生提供设施。该设施每年约有160名科学家、学生和研究助理使用，使用时间约为1万个用户日。在2005年完成详细的设施总体规划时，化验室绘制了经美国环保署批准的湿地圈定图，并绘制了化粪池、室外厕所和沥滤场的位置图。对污水系统规管标准的检讨显示，本所部分污水系统位于湿地或湿地/河岸缓冲区内。部分原因是为了避免可能的停产令，人民币实验室聘请了一家工程公司，并一直在与县和州官员合作，设计一项计划，使实验室的系统符合规定，并管理未来的废物需求。根据该合同，RMBL将安装一个2800平方英尺的浸出场，能够处理实验室大约一半的废水。由于实验室位置偏远，因此适当处理人类废物的能力是促进研究活动和尽量减少实验室基础设施对研究的影响的必要组成部分。中国科学院致力于使科学界多样化。自1991年以来，人民币大学已经为164名本科生提供了研究体验，其中包括56名在科学领域代表性不足的少数群体的学生。在过去五年中，该实验室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.