Comite Resources

We are a team of environmental specialists devoted to developing low-cost solutions to a wide range of the environmental issues facing Louisiana and surrounding Gulf states. We specialize in wetland restoration and in using constructed and natural wetlands to improve point and non-point source water quality. In addition, we have decades of experience in wetland assessment, monitoring, management and delineation. We also have developed relationships with environmental regulatory agencies to facilitate LPDES, CUP, CWA, and other permitting hurdles. Our scientists have strong connections with Louisiana, including John Day, our company founder and Emeritus Professor at LSU, and all of our staff are graduates of Louisiana universities. Comite Resources was established in 1998 by Dr. John Day initially for the purpose of evaluating, designing, and monitoring assimilation wetlands, a technique that he pioneered in Louisiana. Since this time, the company has evolved to provide a suite of environmental services. Assimilation wetlands are wetlands that receive discharge of secondarily treated and disinfected effluent from municipal wastewater treatment plants. This effluent would normally be discharged into nearby rivers and bayous, but by discharging into wetlands it provides much needed nutrients and sediments, which increases plant growth and enhances accretion). A variation of this technique is the use of wetlands, generally constructed, to decrease nutrient and sediment concentrations of stormwater runoff.