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.
Crocheron (Cro-Sher-in) is a small, remote unincorporated community in Dorchester County, Maryland, United States, south of Bishops Head. Crocheron has a public boat dock. Crocheron is just north of the Karen Noonan Center and Bishops Head Marsh. The locals speak with a Tidewater Accent. The area is residential, but not very populated.