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.
Deepwater is a community in Pennsville, in Salem County, New Jersey, lying at the east end of the Delaware Memorial Bridge. Deepwater is the location of the United States Postal Service area covering ZIP code 08023. As of the United States 2000 Census, the ZCTA had a population of 345. While the Census Bureau does not track data for ZIP codes, it does gather information for the ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA), which is designed to approximate the ZIP code. All geographic and Demographic data shown below is for the Deepwater ZCTA.