Hancock County utility sold to Aqua Indiana

Aqua Indiana Inc., a unit of Pennsylvania-based Aqua America Inc., has bought Western Hancock Utilities LLC for about $5 million. Western Hancock Utilities, which provides wastewater services in western Hancock County, serves about 50 businesses and 2,500 residents in the Mount Comfort area. It will be managed out of Aqua Indiana’s office on the northeast side of Indianapolis. Aqua Indiana, which provides water and wastewater service to about 110,000 residents in the state, will spend another $500,000 on new sewer lines.