Ms. Parten has approximately twenty-five years of experience with wastewater systems planning, design and research on both large and small-scale systems. She has owned and operated Community Environmental Services, Inc. (CES), a civil-environmental
...MoreMs. Parten has approximately twenty-five years of experience with wastewater systems planning, design and research on both large and small-scale systems. She has owned and operated Community Environmental Services, Inc. (CES), a civil-environmental engineering firm specializing in decentralized wastewater systems since 1992. Prior to focusing on decentralized wastewater systems planning and research, Ms. Parten worked on municipal scale wastewater and sludge treatment facilities design projects, in addition to water resources and other related engineering consulting services. In the early 1990's Ms. Parten left private consulting engineering and returned to the University of Texas at Austin to work as a research engineer for the Department of Civil Engineering. There, and later through CES, Ms. Parten has conducted a number of research projects on various decentralized wastewater topics. Those projects have ranged from extensive literature searches and database development to the design and monitoring of various types of treatment processes. Ms. Parten is a licensed civil engineer in both Texas and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and practices throughout the U.S. and in the eastern Caribbean region. She is currently authoring a McGraw-Hill Companies book on sustainable decentralized wastewater systems entitled Planning and Installing Sustainable Onsite Wastewater Systems. The book is scheduled for publication in late 2009. For periodic updates, supplemental technical information and pre-ordering requests, refer to the book's website at www.sustainableonsite.com
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