This decision was a culmination of recognizing that much like their forefathers that brought electricity and communications to rural parts of east central Indiana, the only way to get these much-needed wet utility services in less dense areas that no for-profit or municipal utility want to serve was to do so as a community-based, non-profit utility.
After nearly three years of strategic planning that first included encouragement of existing “wet” utility providers to extend into unserved areas and requests to those providers to partner with NineStar, the Board of Directors decided to invest in water and wastewater infrastructure in order to begin providing wet utility services. Seventy-five percent (75%) of the land area of Hancock County was unserved by a public water or wastewater provider and commercial and residential developers were reluctant to invest in any area that didn’t have access to these vital services. In 2013, the Board of Directors began to recognize that electrical and fiber connectivity alone would not ensure quality growth in the community along with quality of place.
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