Susan Parten, P.E.'s Page

What is your Interest?

Corporate Responsibility, Sustainable Development, Environment

Represent:

Company, Individual

Name of Company / Organization:

Community Environmental Services, Inc.

What would you most like to get out of this network?

Encouraging and providing engineering services for the design of environmentally responsible/sustainable wastewater systems with long useful and cost-effective service lives; Encouraging development that adequately addresses erosion/sedimentation issues and other pollutant run-off controls; etc.

What is your current job / title or what field are you studying?

President/Principal Engineer: Community Environmental Services, Inc.

What knowledge, skills and experience do you have that you would be happy for people to contact you over?

25 years of civil/environmental engineering experience with small community/decentralized wastewater systems; Extensive field experience overseeing construction projects and engineering controls; Research with variety of decentralized wastewater systems and processes; BS Civil Engineering and MS Environmental Health Engineering (UT-Austin).

What else would you like to say about yourself?

I'm very passionate about a combination of things that relate to my professional work. Those include making sure that consumers/the public receive much more informed options and services on behalf of both long-term costs and the environment. Since beginning to spend time in the VI years ago, and now as a property owner, it has continued to concern me that such a treasured and environmentally important part of the world receives some of the worst custodianship and protections in critical areas of planning. Those include engineering and construction practices ranging from wastewater planning to erosion/sedimentation and pollutant run-off controls during construction, and construction methods overall. It's vital that practitioners in the VI inform themselves enough to understand the limits of their knowledge and skills, and then reach out to the rest of the world to help better inform their practices/methods.

Website Address

http://www.ces-txvi.com