DPU serves more than 500,000 residential and commercial customers in the Richmond and surrounding metropolitan region. DPU's electric street lighting utility maintains more than 37,000 streetlights throughout the city.

The City of Richmond continues to give Golden Parachutes to those who leave service (frequently under suspicious circumstances). She was 450 ft. in length over all by 43 ft. beam, and 36 ft. in depth from the spar-deck to the keelson. The City of Richmond was built in the yard of Messrs. Tod and Macgregor, at Partick, on the Clyde. Although most City Facilities will remain closed to the public that week we will answer phone calls and respond to emails. Her sister vessel was the City of Chester, which was launched the same year, they were the first two funnellers of the company.

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The City of Richmond’s government facilities and offices will enter Phase Three of the city’s operating plan Monday, July 6. Richmond (/ ˈ r ɪ tʃ m ə n d /) is the capital city of the Commonwealth of Virginia.It is the center of the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) and the Greater Richmond Region.Richmond was incorporated in 1742 and has been an independent city since 1871.

The city of Richmond, Virginia, took down a statue of Gen. Stonewall Jackson on Wednesday as part of a broader push to remove roughly a dozen Confederate-era monuments on city land. The city of Richmond Department of Public Utilities (DPU) operates five utilities: natural gas, water, wastewater, stormwater, and electric streetlighting. COVID-19 City Facility Reopening Plan Municipal Facility Reopening Plan - On Monday, June 8th the City of Richmond will begin a reopening process for City facilities.