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Utilities and Infrastructure
For a town of its size New Carlisle owns an unusual amount of itself: a municipal water system it voted into being in 1879, a municipal sewer system on an ordinance line running back to 1990 and surely older, and a municipal electric department with its own superintendent, its own rate studies, and its own poles standing in AEP transmission country. Natural gas is the one investor-owned service in the daily four, NIPSCO's by tariff. The modern water course has also made the little town a regional utility actor: since July 2024 it operates treatment plants for the county's New Carlisle Economic Development Area under joint-board agreements capped at 24 million gallons a day, and in January 2026 it settled an IURC case that fixed its exclusive water territory with a four-mile buffer — a service map drawn by data centers, not by the town's own taps.
The water-works of 1879 — voted, bonded, and built cheap
1871–1880 · CHAPMAN FIRST-HAND
New Carlisle built its water-works in 1879, and Chapman tells the financing whole. "The citizens here built their water-works in 1879, when everything was cheap. If they had waited until next year, this public improvement would…
The modern water course — two plants, a county partnership, and a four-mile line
2024–2026 · THE TOWN AS REGIONAL UTILITY
The town's water plant now serves an industrial district larger than the town. The standing system first: the town owns and operates its water utility — an East water treatment plant and distribution system, a Water Plant…
Sewer and storm water — the ordinance line
BY 1990–2026 · MUNICIPAL
The sewer system prints at the length of its ordinance book, and its founding stays honestly open. Town Code Chapter 51 carries the sewer rates and charges on an ordinance line running back to Ordinance 750 of 10 January 1990…
Electric — a municipal department in AEP country
THE TOWN ELECTRIC DEPARTMENT
New Carlisle runs its own electric utility, and its council minutes argue about poles to prove it. The department stands in the town's working record at full departmental strength: Jason Quirk reported to the Council as the…
Natural gas and the wires — NIPSCO by tariff; the telephone course thin
1916–2026 · GAS AND TELEPHONE
Gas is the cleanest verdict in this section; the telephone is the thinnest. Natural gas: NIPSCO's IURC Gas Service Tariff, in its Index of Cities, Towns and Unincorporated Communities Furnished Gas Service, lists "New Carlisle …