The Valley News reports that Dartmouth College is considering the sale of its nearly-53 percent share in the Hanover Water Works Company, Inc. to the Town of Hanover, which owns the rest of the company.

College towns are typically dominated by their colleges, but having a college share control of the municipal water company seems unusual, if not unique.

In the 1890s, President Tucker pushed Dartmouth to establish the Water Works and the (College) Heating Plant as companion infrastructure projects.