Public utilities provide electric, gas, water or telephone service to customers in a specified area. Utilities have a duty to provide safe and adequate service on reasonable terms to anyone who lives within the service area on without discriminating between customers. Because most utilities operate in near monopolistic conditions, they can be heavily regulated by local, state, and federal authorities. Generally, the local and state agencies are called Public Service Commissions (PSC) or Public Utility Commissions (PUC). Municipal Utilities and Rural Electric Cooperatives may be unregulated though.
Whiskeytown is an unincorporated community in Shasta County, California, United States. The ZIP Code is 96095. The community is inside area code 530. There is absolutely nobody living in Whiskeytown as of today. The entire town of Whiskeytown was flooded to make way for Whiskeytown Lake in the 1950s. The ZIP Code of 96095 is now defunct as it is being taken over by ZIP Code 96033 in nearby French Gulch. The town of Whiskeytown is now properly part of French Gulch as the now closed post office and store was on higher ground for 40 years. But Whiskeytown appears on many maps. There is also a roadside store that calls itself 'Whiskeytown'.