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Jacksonville is a seaport city and the seat of Duval County, Florida, United States.

With an estimated 868,031 residents as of 2015, Jacksonville is the most populous city in both the state of Florida and the southeastern United States.

It is estimated to be the 12th most populous city in the United States and is the largest city by area in the contiguous United States.

The Jacksonville metropolitan area has a population of 1,573,606 and is the 40th largest in the United States and fourth largest in the state of Florida.

The city is situated on the banks of the St. Johns River, in the First Coast region of North Florida, about south of the Georgia state line and north of Miami.

JEA (Jacksonville Electric Authority), located in Jacksonville, Florida, is the eighth largest community-owned electric utility company in the United States and largest in Florida.

As of 2009, JEA serves more than 417,000 electric customers, 305,000 water customers and 230,000 sewer customers.

Besides Jacksonville (Duval County), JEA also has customers in Clay, Nassau and St. Johns counties.

A public utility (usually just utility) is an organization that maintains the infrastructure for a public service (often also providing a service using that infrastructure).

Public utilities are subject to forms of public control and regulation ranging from local community-based groups to statewide government monopolies.

Florida's First Coast, or simply the First Coast, is a region of the U.S. state of Florida, located on the Atlantic coast of North Florida.

The First Coast refers to the same general area as the "directional" region of Northeast Florida.

It roughly comprises the five counties surrounding Jacksonville: Duval, Baker, Clay, Nassau and St. Johns, largely corresponding to the Jacksonville metropolitan area, and may include other nearby areas such as Putnam and Flagler counties in Florida and Camden County, Georgia.

The name originated in a marketing campaign in the 1980s, and has since emerged as one of Florida's best known vernacular regions.

A sanitary sewer or "foul sewer" is an underground carriage system specifically for transporting sewage from houses and commercial buildings through pipes to treatment or disposal.

Sanitary sewers are part of an overall system called sewerage or sewage system.