Trident Environmental Services & Technologies |
| John Wear, Owner / Consultant President, Trident Environmental Services and Technologies, Inc. Telephone: 504-858-0397 or 228-314-0400 or 228-363-2563 Email: johnwearusa@yahoo.com |
The TRIDENT COASTAL REMEDIATION PLAN CAN BE SEEN BELOW ON THIS WEB PAGE, SCROLL DOWN TO READ THE 6-STEP PLAN. (Planning includes replacement of marsh grasses, Black Mangrove, Bald Cypress.) |
| ROOTZONE HUMUS IS A NON-CONTAMINATING BIO-REMEDIATING COMPOST CONCENTRATE |
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| ROOTZONE HUMUS STIMULATES ROOT GROWTH |
| ROOTZONE HUMUS IS EASY TO SPREAD |
| ROOTZONE HUMUS LIQUID REMEDIATES HYDROCARBON DAMAGE AND PROVIDES FERTILITY FOR ROOT GROWTH AND PLANT HEALTH |
| ROOTZONE HUMUS HELPS RESTORE SOIL AND ROOT VALUES (Pass Christian, MS) |
| John Wear examines microorganism values in ROOTZONE HUMUS LIQUID, for hydrocarbon digesting capabilities. |
| Roots through clay! |
| Back bay and estuary protection using ROOTZONE HUMUS |
| Root feeding a storm-damaged live oak tree with ROOTZONE HUMUS |
| ROOTZONE HUMUS provides environmental protection values |
| A few lessons from years of experience: LEARNING FROM HISTORY "There's an important thing people must realize in planning for a spill this size: No amount of equipment will clean it all up, even if they give you a month's notice to get ready." "Look at the expanse of water involved, and figure the time it takes to deploy boats and skimmers and support vessels at 12 knots. Skimmers need barges to collect their oil. Crews need food, ships need fuel, and somebody has to collect the garbage." "And nothing works if the weather's bad." "In mid-September, weather in the Gulf of Alaska can go from sunshine to blizzards with very little warning. And so, for better or worse, the massive mechanical cleanup program wound down." "But at Snug Harbor, on Knight Island, I find that a very subtle but very exciting cleanup program has just begun. Scientists of the Environmental Protection Agency have successfully demonstrated a process called bioremediation, in which oil-eating bacteria, native to Prince William Sound, may become the best cleanup crew of all." "Chuck Costa, EPA's site manager, shows me a long pebble beach neatly marked off into test plots by staked cords." The story continues to explain that the crews sprayed some plots with nutrient that stimulated microbial activity. The nutrient stimulated the bacteria to degrade the oil faster and began making a dramatic difference in the appearance of the area within only two or three weeks. "Only by digging about five inches into the shingle can I find evidence of the oil that once coated the entire beach. Sand fleas leap about my hand as I dig." "We are still learning how deep the bacterial activity may go," Costa says. "We believe it may extend as deep as 12 inches in some areas. What the bacteria leave behind are the asphalt hydrocarbons. They are unsightly, but they aren't toxic." "One of the project's originators was Dr. Hap Pritchard, chief of EPA's Microbial Ecology and Biotechnology Branch at Gulf Breeze, Florida. When the spill occurred, he was working on a new EPA program to develop bacterial degradation of toxic waste." FOR REFERENCE: www.epa.gov/oppt/ppic www.epa.gov/region07/toxics/arpp.htm www.epa.gov/oem/content/partners/nrsnrt.htm www.compostconcentrate.com The above quotations were taken from articles written about the experiences of scientists and crews working on the EXXON VALDEZ oil spill in Alaska, 24 March, 1989, the year TRIDENT ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES & TECHNOLOGIES, John Wear, made the first container of "liquid organic compost tea" from bovine manure, in Stevenville, Texas. The liquid compost tea could digest motor oil and fuel contamination. ROOTZONE HUMUS LIQUID and ROOTZONE HUMUS, continue to work efficiently as effective bioremediation solutions. |
| CLEANING UP THE OIL CONTAMINATION AND RESTORING MARSHLANDS, 2010-2012 John Wear, TRIDENT ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES & TECHNOLOGIES, Inc. ROOTZONE HUMUS No landfills needed. This is a waste conversion, replanting, AND replenishment plan. Wetlands, marsh, swamp, coastal habitats, all benefit from the plan we are presenting. Our first deployment of RootZone Humus (RZHO), is proving successful in Louisiana Marshland. We have developed containerized remediation methods that can be applied wherever oil spills cause problems. We continue with our plan to provide stabilization, restoration, replenishment of beneficial organisms. The Trident plan does not include a dumping or "disposal" plan. We cooperate with nature. We have developed several approved and successful means of managing and solving the problems inherent in oil spills, wherever they occur. 1. Capture, (by our various effective & successful means), the hydrocarbon contamination (oil) from Gulf water. 2. Move the captured oil to approved, designated shore collection points or into barges. Or, using RZHO/PFA, drop the surface oil to sea floor, with oliophilic microbes & nutrient prepared for these specific needs. 3. Remediate hydrocarbon contamination within windrows, (turning the blend of captured hydrocarbon, compost, sand, etc.,) until lab reports reveal appropriate safety levels. Capture all VOCs as composting continues. (Use SCARAB technology for the required blending and aeration within remediating windrows which contain the hydrocarbon, and install an enclosed system, highly efficient, SCARAB designed, for further control of VOCs. ) An indoor system is required in the Louisiana,Mississippi,Alabama,Florida area because of the volume and frequency of rainfall. If remediation processes must be removed from the present area, haul the collected hydrocarbon/compost blend to location where average annual rainfall is 20 inches per year, or fewer than 20 inches per year. We estimate that with this plan in place, the TPH or Total Petroleum Hydrocarbon degradation will rapidly proceed, with fastest degrading of contamination in the first five weeks. As previously observed, the very rapid work of degrading bacteria was impressive in the first five weeks. After 22 weeks of treatment within the compost biomass, 93% (from 3830/kg dry weight to 268.1mg/kg) dry weight degradation of TPH of the contaminated material was achieved, and a corresponding increase in number of beneficial bacterial population was observed. Beneficial bacterial and fungal groups increase in this methodology. (S.P.E. International) MICROORGANISMS IN ROOTZONE HUMUS ARE G.R.A.S.; "Generally recognized as safe. EPA DOES NOT REQUIRE REGULATION. 4. After thorough composting, take the resulting product, made from the composted, previously-damaging crude oil,for use as a growing media for the replacement of marsh grass. Other uses are possible. (Biodegradable containers filled with RootZone Humus Blends and appropriate plants. ) 5. Phyto-remediation. Manage the planting and restoration project. Perhaps will include trees in select areas for further strengthening shorelines in locations where trees are appropriate and have been a previous part of the coastal environment. 6. From an established and producing aquaculture production facility, invertebrates, shellfish, and finfish will be continually grown and will be provided for replenishment in marshlands where such populations have been interrupted. This is restoration step number six. THIS PLAN COOPERATES WITH NATURE |
| 228-314-0400 or 228-363-2563, Trident methods, plans, and product are working well. More to come! |
| "THE SIX-STEP PLAN:" |
| OLEOPHILIC ROOTZONE LIQUID |
| OLEOPHILIC ROOTZONE DRY PRODUCT with NUTRIENTS & MICROBES |
| Our container systems work! CONTAMINATED MARSH SETTING. TESTING TO CONFIRM FERTILITY AND NATURAL DIGESTION OF CONTAINERS. |
| ROOTZONE HUMUS, GULF SAVER BAGS, and BILLIONS OF LIVING ORGANISMS |
| MARSH RESTORATION and WETLANDS PROTECTION PROGRAMS ARE MOVING FORWARD in COASTAL MISSISSIPPI and COASTAL LOUISIANA. TRIDENT IS PROVIDING ROOTZONE HUMUS, CONSULTATION, and "Hands-on assistance!" OUR CONTAINER GROWING METHODS ARE EFFECTIVE! RootZone Humus & "GROW-CELLS"; available for projects world-wide. |
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| TRIDENT ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES & TECHNOLOGIES; JOHN WEAR, CONSULTANT: BNET LINK; BIOCYCLE ARTICLE ROOTZONE HUMUS |
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| RootZone Humus Deployed in oil contaminated Louisiana Marshes |
We continue to share our understanding that replenishment of the marsh grass and the live oak species in marshlands, cheniers and on barrier islands is vital to survival of Coastal Louisiana. RootZone Humus to control contamination, feed invertebrates, and to stimulate root growth, and CONTAINERS FILLED WITH RZHO to rebuild habitat and land mass |
| Deployment Team |
| Restoring life to damaged marshlands. |
| COOPERATING WITH NATURE... |
| Second successful deployment of RootZone Humus |
| The marshlands at Pass-a-Loutre |
Dr. Don Blancher conducts survey of Gulf Saver bag site. |
John Wear, Trident President, tests marsh grass roots for color and sweetness |
| What's next for Trident Environmental Services & Technologies Corporation? Our work in coastal areas of the Gulf of Mexico has been effective. The containerized process, and RootZone RZHO in containers works just like I predicted; rhizome protection and energetic growth of both the Spartina alterniflora (smooth cord grass) and the Avicennia germinans (black mangrove). We do not know all we would like to know about the weather-hardiness of the mangrove, but time will tell. At present the roots are developing well, leaves and stems look good. Survival and hardy growth are evident. RootZone RZHO is working well in the marshlands! RZH and RootZone Liquid have proven beneficial to restoration and protection of live oaks along the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. Landscape projects in Ocean Springs, Mississippi continue with applications of RZH. My products have been applied to new plantings and to restoration work which provided rejuvenation and protection to historic live oaks growing near the south end of Washington Street in Ocean Springs. The project was managed by MSU/USDA experts who chose RZH as the best remediation and growing media amendment for restoration. Gulf Coast projects, including barrier islands... The roots will continue to benefit much from the RZHO, and will extend through the container base, as the containers are digested by the abundant beneficial bacteria and fungal groups that are present in the RZHO. Crude oil contamination will not harm these protective packages. Plant growth will continue, energetically. Invertebrates, shell-fish, fin-fishes, and other living things which are part of the Gulf Coastal Environment will benefit much from our work and from RZHO which was designed specifically for this present effort. Louisiana Wildlife & Fisheries oversees the Coastal Louisiana Projects for which we have provided RZHO. Plans include projects to stabilize and protect barrier islands and marshlands in many Gulf Coast locations, from Texas to Florida. For more information, refer to www.compostconcentrate.com And, call 504-858-0397, 228-314-0400 to talk with John |