Electric
Electric Power to the Knox County/Vincennes area is supplied by Duke and WIN Energy REMC. Out of 167 utilities nationwide, Duke ranks 138th - among the lowest 20% in the country. The industrial power cost for Knox County/Vincennes area based on 1,000 kW high load factor is 63% of the US average.
Source:Cinergy/PSI Energy

Natural Gas
Vectren serves all of Knox County. The Company distributes natural gas to over 104,000 industrial, commercial and residential customers. In addition to connection with four interstate gas transmission companies, Vectren owns three underground gas storage fields, ensuring the ready delivery from storage of 3.8 billion cubic feet of safe, reliable natural gas at competitive prices. Vectren offers a variety of services including firm and interruptible service and transportation of customer-owned gas. Other industrial tariff rates are very competitive, ranking the lowest of any major investor-owned, gas distribution company in the United States, in 1995.

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Fire Protection
City of Vincennes

• Class 4
• 40 Full Time Professional Firefighters
• 36 first class firemen
• 3 assistant chiefs
• I Chief
• 4 full time fire stations
  

Cooperative agreements with the following Volunteer Township Departments.

• Bicknell Fire Dept.
• Johnson Twp. Fire Dept.
• Freelandville Fire Dept.
• Palmyra Twp. Fire Dept.
• Vincennes Twp. Fire Dept.
• Sandborn Fire Dept.
• Washington Twp. Fire Dept.
• Edwardsport Fire Dept.
• Harrison Twp. Fire Dept.
• Oaktown Fire Dept.
• Vigo Twp. Fire Dept.
• Steen Twp. Fire Dept.

Source: City of Vincennes, 201 Vigo Street, Vincennes, IN 47591, (812) 882-7285

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Telecommunications
SBC Communications

• Serves Vincennes and Knox County
• Telephone lines installed - 65,511 telephone lines
• System capacity Unlimited
• System Central Office switches serving the Vincennes area are #5ESS digital.
• The main host switch has not experienced any service outages over the past 18 months

Services available

• Touch Tone Dialing
• Domestic and international direct long distance dialing
• Mobile telephone service throughout the entire service area
• Call Waiting
• Call forwarding
• Three-way calling
• Speed dialing

Vincennes is connected to America's statewide fiber backbone network which encompasses over 95,000 miles of fiber optics in Indiana to transmit voice, data, and video Fiber facilities can be made available should a customer desire to contract for services requiring fiber infrastructure.

Points of Presence (POPs) serving Vincennes 46 different carriers including AT&T, MCI, Sprint, ALLNETT, LCI, LDDS, US SIGNAL and Wiltel.

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Waste Water Treatment
Waste water treatment is provided by the Vincennes Sewer Department. The department operates an activated sludge treatment plant southwest of the City of Vincennes

• Plant Design Capacity - 4.56 MGD
• Average Daily Flow - 2.58 MGD

Solid Waste
Southwest Indiana is served by all the major rubbish and garbage removal services. Knox County is currently using a subtitled C & D landfill located in Worthington, IN. This facility is permitted for approximately 12 years with an additional 300 acres to be developed and permitted in the near future. This landfill is permitted to handle special waste. Hazardous waste is sent to Bloomington, IN.

Additional Area Landfills

• Black Foot -Pike County, Petersburg, IN
• Country Site Trash, Sumner, IL
• Rumpke Land Fill, Worthington, IN

Potable Water
Drinking water is supplied by the Vincennes Water Department. Source of water is a sand and gravel aquifer at a depth of 90 feet with a well field and treatment plant located southwest of the City of Vincennes

• Current daily pumping capacity - 8.0 MGD
• Current daily average demand - 3.8 MGD

Groundwater Availability
Under Vincennes and a great deal of Knox County lies a great natural resource, the Great Underground Water Resource. This giant resource has approximately 125, 118,259,200,000 gallons of pure 56 degree constant temperature water per day flowing down to the sea. Depending on site location, water may be found in great quantities between 20 to 90 feet down. Even with this great resource, soil compaction is easily attained with soils averaging 2,500 to 3,000 psi. loading capabilities.