COMPASS supports an integrated team of permitting specialists, coastal ecologists, marine biologists, fisheries biologists, remote-sensing specialists, and scientific divers. This comprehensive team provides COMPASS with the knowledge and capabilities to conduct aquatic studies in both freshwater and marine environments. The combined talents of COMPASS’s team and our professional working relationships throughout the gulf coast have been proven successful and acknowledged by many clients. 

Boat on the water

Environmental Permitting 

  • Clean Water Act (CWA) Section 404 and 401 

  • Endangered Species Act 

  • National Historic Preservation Act 

  • Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act 

  • National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) 

  • Environmental construction monitoring 

  • Artificial reef creation 

  • Environmental compliance and documentation 

  • Seagrass mitigation plans with in-kind and out-of-kind mitigation for impacts 

  • Oyster reef impact mitigation 

Wetland Compliance

Wetland Regulatory Compliance 

  • Jurisdictional wetland boundary delineation 

  • Permit preparation and modification 

  • NEPA documentation 

  • Agency coordination 

  • Resource management plans 

Environmental Investgating

Environmental Investigations 

  • Wetland, estuarine marsh, and seagrass evaluation and mapping 

  • Rare/endangered plant surveys 

  • Soil mapping and characterization  

  • Hydrological source identification 

  • Wetland functions, values identification, and assessment 

  • Wetland identification 

  • Water quality analysis 

  • Phase I and Phase II Environmental Site Assessments 

Sea water wetlands

Wetland Mitigation Design/Monitoring 

  • Seagrass and Oyster Mitigation 

  • Erosion and sediment control plans 

  • Functional assessment 

  • Hydrologic modeling and sampling 

  • Site selection 

  • Stream relocation 

  • Vegetation analysis 

  • Hydrologic investigations