Company Profile

     Comite Resources, Inc. has established itself as an expert in understanding wetland environments. We deliver fully integrated ecosystem solutions to each client by designing site-specific wastewater effluent strategies. Through a careful process of initial feasibility analyses, we develop criteria for acceptable waste management solutions. Comite Resources, Inc. engages the client with every aspect of the system, from the design, construction, and operation, to proper monitoring of their system. We have over 45 years of scientific research and regulatory experience in wetland environments worldwide. This unparalleled experience is why Comite Resources, Inc. has been chosen by so many communities to be an integral part of their environmental project teams.

 

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St. Martinville, LA

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     The City was under a federal court order to stop discharging into Cypress Island Coulee. Comite Resources, Inc. was hired to evaluate using wetlands to treat effluent. The City's treatment plant was a stabilization pond and a Lemna system that failed to meet state environmental standards. Based on this Ecological Baseline Study (EBS) USEPA approved the project as a cost effective method to remove nutrients from the receiving water body and benefit the wetlands. The Ecological Baseline Study (EBS) determined the suitability of the Cypress Island Coulee wetlands, located west of St. Martinville, Louisiana, for assimilation of secondarily treated municipal effluent. Wetland communities in the area are primarily cypress-tupelo forested wetlands and bottomland hardwood forests.

     This study included water quality analysis, sediment characterization, vegetation composition, hydrology and productivity analysis. A total of five 10 x 100m plots were established in anticipated effluent input and discharge regions, as well as at a control region. All trees in the plots greater than 3.2 cm thick were tagged, and the diameter measured during the winters of 2003 and 2004. Six leaf litter collection boxes were installed at each plot, and leaf litter was collected bimonthly during the study. Soil bulk density was also measured at each plot. Water quality samples were taken periodically for nutrient analysis. The data gathered for this study was used to establish base conditions and criteria for the implementation of the Cypress Island Coulee wetlands for wastewater treatment.