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Enman Engineering Moves!
Enman Engineering, PC, Rutland City's longest practicing, locally owned, Civil Engineering, Sanitary Engineering and Environmental Permitting, Consulting Engineering Firm has relocated their offices to 61 Prospect St, Rutland, VT. The offices are located in a two story, circa 1850's house that has been completely refurbished.
Blair Enman, PE, President, Enman Engineering, PC, has been providing engineering designs for Land Use and Land Development Projects in Vermont since 1973. Enman Engineering was started in 1982 in the basement of Enman’s home with the goal of being the best one-person engineering office in the state. Blair notes, “While we’ve grown over the years and moved a few times, we are pleased to have settled into a permanent location. The permanent home provides the firm with a program for long term stability.”
Enman Engineering’s mission is to provide cost effective engineering solutions in the disciplines of civil engineering, sanitary engineering and environmental permitting, for clients who seek economical solutions in their design, permitting, construction, operation and maintenance of their infrastructure systems.
Enman Engineering has been fortunate to have clients that have sought innovative design. Our clients today are seeking green and environmentally friendly design and we are responding to those requests. We put our heart and soul into seeking economical, practical and regulatory compliant solutions for our client’s projects.
Civil and sanitary engineers deal predominantly with land planning and site work such as road and parking lot design, grading and drainage issues, potable and non-potable water systems, wastewater systems and stormwater systems. Typical clients requiring these services include but are not limited to single family residences, multi-family residences, commercial developments, industrial facilities, institutional projects, lodging accommodations, restaurants and municipalities.
Vermont’s regulatory programs require specialized knowledge of the rules. Enman Engineering’s staff have served on committees that have written legislation and rules for water supply, wastewater disposal and stormwater. This unique opportunity affords our client’s a broader perspective on the regulatory process. It is this intimate participation during the development of the laws and regulations that places Enman Engineering ahead of the others for Act 250, Agency and Municipal Permitting.
Enman Engineering’s largest client to date, the second client acquired in 1982, is Killington Ski Area. Enman says of Killington, “Killington has provided us with many opportunities to seek technical, innovative and economical solutions. We are proud to have been associated with Killington and afforded an opportunity to provide innovative solutions. Killington needed an innovative and economical solution to a wastewater problem in 1982 and we’re pleased to have been working with them ever since.”
More recently Enman Engineering designed a high pressure wastewater system for Killington. It may be the highest pressure wastewater system in the nation. The Killington Alpine Pipeline Connection pumps
wastewater over Pico at 400 gpm with operating pressures near 850 psi. “The pressure is reduced from 740 psi to zero psi in 30 ft! That system is quite an accomplishment.”
We’re also proud to be affiliated with Killington’s Wastewater Recycle and Reuse system saving up to 60,000 gallons of water per day during peak winter operation. We’ve negotiated a way to offer the same water saving technology to small scale water systems, too, even single family dwellings.
Another client, Bennington College, required a water system upgrade which would have required two separate water systems, one for fire suppression, one for potable water. Enman notes, “We met with the Vermont Department of Labor and Industry and the Vermont Water Supply Division to hash out a solution that allowed but one system savings hundreds of thousands of dollars.” Enman Engineering is now into a multi-year program with Green Mountain College providing a similar economical solution.
In another recent victory for one of our clients, the Vermont Water Supply Division tried to assert control over a Non-Public Water System in Killington Town, avowing that three drilled wells serving 24 connections should be classified as a Public Community Water System. This regulatory decision, if upheld, could have forced the water system to shut down.
Enman Engineering worked with the Vermont Water Supply Division and the Vermont Wastewater Management Division to redefine how the Water Supply Division asserts control over water systems. The Water Supply Division issued new guidance as a result of Enman’s presentation so as to allow multiple wells owned by the same entity, each serving less than 10 connections, to be classified as a Non-Public Water System. Enman notes, “We now have other water systems using this new interpretation.”
At Enman Engineering, we enjoy working for clients seeking innovative, technical, economical and regulatory compliant solutions.
Enman’s desire for a cost effective solution to engineering problems stems from an engineering class at Northeastern University, Boston MA. The first day of class the professor began his lecture with a statement: “Anyone can design a bridge, but one of three things can be expected to occur. The bridge will be over-designed, too expensive to build and never constructed; or, the bridge will be under-designed failing to fulfill the needed objective; or it will be designed by a civil engineer satisfying economic requirements using sound engineering principals.” These words still ring true today and form the basis for Enman Engineering’s philosophy.
Enman Engineering, PC, offers civil and sanitary engineering, and environmental permitting consulting for land use and land development projects, roadways, parking, grading, drainage, water supplies, wastewater disposal, stormwater management, Act 250 permitting, ANR permitting, Phase I Site Assessments and Expert Witness Testimony for clients throughout Vermont. They may be visited at 61 Prospect St, Rutland City, Vermont, 05701. Contact information 802-775-3437, benman@enmanengineering.com, www.enmanengineering.com
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