Utilities

Electricity – Dominion Virginia Power

888-667-3000

One full day’s notice is required. Connections are not made on weekends.
Connection fee of $15.00 appears on your first bill.
A deposit of $90.00 – $180.00 will be waived if a credit check is satisfactory. The deposit will be returned after one year at current interest rate pending 12 months of continuous service and good credit.

Electricity – Hanover County

Rappahannock Electric Cooperative
1-800-552-3904

Water:

Chesterfield
748-1291
3 days required for service

City of Richmond
644-3000*
2 days required for service

Hanover
537-4275
1 week required for service

Henrico
501-4275
3 days required for service
No deposit required for service if purchasing; $30 connection charge for Richmond.
*In Richmond, call 780-6350 to report water leaks.

Natural Gas:

Richmond Department of Public Utilities
644-3000

Serves Henrico and parts of Chesterfield; no service to Hanover

There is a $25.00 deposit (cooking only) to $100.00 (heated by gas) for new service if purchasing and a $25.00 – $100.00 deposit if renting. *
There is a $30.00 connection charge added to first bill.
Letter of credit from major utility company can waive deposit.

Commonwealth Gas Services (Chesterfield County)
800-543-8911

Forty-eight hour notice required for service.
A deposit will be waived with a satisfactory letter of credit from a major utility company.

Virginia Natural Gas (Hanover County)
330-2887

Twenty-four to forty-eight hour notice for service.
$180.00 deposit required for new service. A letter of satisfactory credit from a major utility company will waiver deposit.

Telephone:

Verizon
954-6222

Three to seven business days required for service. If residence currently receives phone service, Verizon can switch service overnight.
The one-time hook-up fee is $38.50.
Security deposit depends on credit history (credit report).

Cavalier Telephone
800-683-3944

Garbage and Trash Collection:

Richmond
(804) 646-7000

Trash is collected once a week, and one large rolling can is provided. The cost is $10.00 per month. The statement is sent with the water bill.

Chesterfield
748-1297

Trash is picked up every other week from cans placed at the curb by the homeowner. Each can must have a sticker which can be purchased at the treasurer’s office. Cost is $1.00 per sticker. Service begins when stickers are purchased.

Hanover (for yard rubbish and grass clippings only)
537-6181

There is public trash collection in limited areas, only. Private contractors perform this service. Look in the Yellow Pages for private garbage collection companies that serve these areas.

Newspapers:

Richmond Times-Dispatch: 748-6389
Style Weekly: 358-0825
The Richmond Free Press (Weekly): 644-0496

Television:

CBS/WTVR: Channel 6
ABC/WRIC: Channel 8
NBC/WWBT: Channel 12
PBS/WCVE: Channel 23
FOX/WHRL: Channel 35

Cable Television:

Comcast Cable: 1-800-COMCAST