Sanitary sewer overflow (SSO) reported — Fairfax County DPWES Wastewater (Noman M. Cole Jr. Water Recycling Facility and collection system), May 8, 2026

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Original source data

{
  "report": {
    "id": "323465",
    "via": "api",
    "incident": "2026-05-08T08:27:52",
    "incident_end": null,
    "received": "2026-05-08T12:07:16",
    "closed": "2026-05-12T14:20:51",
    "modified": "2026-05-12T14:20:51",
    "date_unknown": false,
    "site_name": "SSO - Unpermitted - Fairfax Co - Blue Plains (DC)",
    "address": "5400 Landmark Pl",
    "city": "Fairfax",
    "zip": "22032",
    "county_city": "Fairfax County",
    "region": "Northern",
    "status_text": "Closed",
    "categories": [
      "Risk Tier 1",
      "Sanitary Sewer Overflow"
    ],
    "waterbody": "Woodglen Lake",
    "other_waterbody": "UT of Woodglen Lake\nno environmental impacts observed",
    "original_waterbody": null,
    "water_threatened": "Y",
    "low": 20,
    "high": 20,
    "unit": "Gallons",
    "ssors": null,
    "nrc": [],
    "vdem": null,
    "epa": null,
    "facility_name": null,
    "facility_permitted": "N",
    "responsible_company": null,
    "still_occurring": "N"
  },
  "text": {
    "incident_comment": "DEQ received an online pollution report for a 20-gal sewage discharge from a pipe in Fairfax Co that terminates at Blue Plains WWTP in DC (unpermitted). Fairfax Co stopped the discharge and completed pipe repairs. Fairfax Co report received and requirements met. The sewage discharged into an UT of Woodglen Lake. No detrimental environmental impacts observed. No additional DEQ action necessary.",
    "location_comment": "Tax Map 068-3 / line segment 068-3-264-068-3-268 located in the easement",
    "closure_comment": null
  },
  "sewage": [
    {
      "duration_h": 1,
      "component": "Pipe Failure",
      "component_id": 3,
      "volume_gal": 20,
      "volume_unknown": null,
      "wet_weather": "N",
      "treated": "N",
      "precipitation_in": null,
      "causes": [
        "Broken Pipe"
      ],
      "impacts": [
        "Discharge to State Waters"
      ],
      "corrective_action": "pump around set up\npipe repair competed",
      "steps_taken": null,
      "component_comment": null,
      "other_cause": null
    }
  ],
  "status_log": [
    {
      "at": "2026-05-08T12:07:17",
      "type": "Call Received"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-05-08T14:47:19",
      "type": "Assigned"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-05-08T14:47:19",
      "type": "Under Investigation"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-05-08T14:47:41",
      "type": "Program Participant Assigned"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-05-08T14:47:47",
      "type": "Program Participant Assigned"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-05-12T00:00:00",
      "type": "Other Correspondence/Reports"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-05-12T14:05:52",
      "type": "Assigned"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-05-12T14:20:51",
      "type": "Closed Call/IR"
    }
  ],
  "created_in_prep": "2026-05-08T12:07:17",
  "event_type_basis": "DEQ category Sanitary Sewer Overflow",
  "permit": {
    "typed_permit": "VA0025364",
    "deq_vpdes_links": null,
    "ms4": null,
    "ms4_links": null,
    "basis": "permit number on the original report"
  },
  "discharger_match": {
    "by_permit": "va-fairfax-dpwes",
    "by_name": null,
    "result": "by permit"
  },
  "volume_basis": "sewage report discharge volume (gallons)",
  "_ended_at_basis": "incident time + duration 1 h (sewage report)",
  "_time_basis": "PReP API times are local wall-clock times with no zone, read as America/New_York. The export table stores local time + 5 h all year (decoded by subtracting 5 h); the EDMA point layer stores local time labelled as UTC (decoded by reading the UTC clock as local).",
  "water_placement": {
    "text": "Woodglen Lake; UT of Woodglen Lake\nno environmental impacts observed",
    "towns": [
      "Fairfax",
      "Fairfax County"
    ],
    "notes": null,
    "echo_outfall": null
  },
  "point": {
    "lat": 38.806081,
    "lon": -77.31603,
    "layer": "DEQ EDMA layer 175 (PReP Reports, Daily)",
    "reference_point": "PG",
    "note": "DEQ's geocode of the report's site address (REFERENCE_POINT 'PG'), not an outfall point",
    "edma_incident": "2026-05-08T08:27:52-04:00",
    "edma_received": "2026-05-08T12:07:16-04:00"
  },
  "attribution": "DEQ is the data source. DEQ does not certify that this data represents a complete record. This data is provided to the citizens of the Commonwealth free of charge and for informational purposes only.",
  "api_url": "https://portal.deq.virginia.gov/prep/api/prepReports/323465?expand=prepStatusCode,prepUnitTypeCode,prepReportSewages.prepComponentTypeCode,prepReportSewages.prepSewageCauses.prepCauseCode,prepReportSewages.prepSewageImpacts.prepImpactTypeCode,prepReportReleaseSubtypes.prepReleaseSubtypeCode,prepReportPermitViews,prepOriginalReport,prepReportEvents.prepEventTypeCode,prepFipsCode.fipsRegion"
}

Source: Virginia DEQ Pollution Response Program (PReP), Northern Regional Office via Virginia DEQ Pollution Response Program (PReP) pollution reports, sewage-related, record 323465, reported May 8, 2026, 12:07 PM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-03 02:40 UTC · Read the original notice

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