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Payment channels

Pay Chesterfield County Utilities Department – Central Water System

Use the provider’s verified online, telephone, mail, or counter instructions. Check the final confirmation screen for the amount, processing date, and any transaction fee before submitting.

Primary online route

Use the official payment portal

The direct portal is the fastest route when it is available. The provider identifies its payment gateway as Paymentus.. Never enter account credentials into a lookalike site reached through an unsolicited message.

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Telephone payment

Phone IVR

844-449-7664 for automated phone payment at any time. Billing and account questions are handled at 804-748-1291 Monday-Friday 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.; Paymentus technical support is 800-420-1663.

Have your account number and payment instrument ready. Follow the provider’s recorded prompts and retain the confirmation number.

Alternative channels

Mail, text, and in-person payment instructions

Pay by text

A dedicated this detail was not publicly posted. The reviewed Chesterfield Utilities payment page and Paymentus portal publish online, phone, kiosk, drop-box, direct-debit, and mail options but do not publish a Chesterfield text-to-pay keyword or enrollment workflow. Paymentus displays SMS terms, but that does not establish a local pay-by-text program.

Mail-in address

Chesterfield County Utilities Department, P.O. Box 608, Chesterfield, VA 23832-0009. The County warns that the former Charlotte, North Carolina lockbox address is invalid after September 1, 2025 and payments sent there will be returned.

Counters, drop boxes, and office hours

The Utilities office is at 9840 Government Center Parkway, Chesterfield, VA 23832, open Monday-Friday 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. excluding holidays. Walk-up drop boxes are at both Utilities-building entrances and a drive-through box is at the Government Center Parkway entrance; customers are told not to place cash in drop boxes. Twenty-four-hour payment kiosks are at Lane B. Ramsey Administration Building, 9901 Lori Road; Clover Hill Library, 6701 Deer Run Drive; Ettrick-Matoaca Library, 4501 River Road; Meadowdale Library, 4301 Meadowdale Boulevard; Midlothian Library, 100 Millworks Crossing; and North Courthouse Road Library, 325 Courthouse Road. Kiosks accept cash, credit/debit cards, and checks and offer English/Spanish instructions and printed or texted receipts.

Accepted digital instruments

What you can use online

Paymentus accepts electronic checks and credit cards, with the portal displaying Visa, Mastercard, electronic check, PayPal, PayPal Credit, Venmo, and Amazon Pay options. Chesterfield also offers direct debit/AutoPay and paperless bills. The official account page says these payment options are available without service fees; it does not specifically advertise Apple Pay or Google Pay.

2026 transaction pricing

Convenience fees

No service fee is advertised for the Customer Portal’s eCheck or credit-card payments. The reviewed page does not publish a percentage or flat 2026 surcharge for any third-party wallet option.

Fees can vary by payment type, channel, account class, and processor terms. The checkout screen is the final fee disclosure.

Payment guidance

Choose the payment channel that fits your deadline

The safest payment path is the one published by Chesterfield County Utilities Department – Central Water System and matched to the account information on your bill. Online portals are convenient, but telephone, mail, counter, and drop-box options may follow different posting schedules and may use different fees.

For a routine payment, save the final confirmation page or IVR number and check when the transaction will post. For a same-day shut-off notice, do not assume that submitting a card payment automatically stops a field order; ask the provider what amount and confirmation are required.

Never send your account number, password, card details, or bank information to Water Ledger. Those details belong only on the provider’s verified payment channel or at an authorized counter.