Sanitary sewer overflow (SSO) reported

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{
  "report": {
    "id": "323494",
    "via": "api",
    "incident": "2026-05-11T10:00:25",
    "incident_end": null,
    "received": "2026-05-11T14:26:52",
    "closed": "2026-05-27T11:12:57",
    "modified": "2026-05-27T11:12:57",
    "date_unknown": true,
    "site_name": "SSO - 772 J. Clyde Morris Blvd - Newport News",
    "address": "772 J Clyde Morris Boulevard",
    "city": "Newport News",
    "zip": "23601",
    "county_city": "Newport News City",
    "region": "Tidewater",
    "status_text": "Closed",
    "categories": [
      "Risk Tier 2",
      "Pollutant Discharge to Land"
    ],
    "waterbody": null,
    "other_waterbody": null,
    "original_waterbody": null,
    "water_threatened": "Y",
    "low": null,
    "high": null,
    "unit": null,
    "ssors": null,
    "nrc": [],
    "vdem": null,
    "epa": null,
    "facility_name": null,
    "facility_permitted": "N",
    "responsible_company": null,
    "still_occurring": "Y"
  },
  "text": {
    "incident_comment": "City of Newport News reported the following about a sanitary sewer overflow \"Adjacent to access road to the rear/side of the Wawa location. This access road comes off of Rumson Avenue and leads to the parking lot of the store.\"  DEQ conducted a site visit and found that the area was clear of any sewage and sewer related debris.",
    "location_comment": "Adjacent to access road to the rear/side of the Wawa location. This access road comes off of Rumson Avenue and leads to the parking lot of the store.",
    "closure_comment": "Initial report provided by City of Newport News.  DEQ conducted site visit and found the area clear of any sewage and sewage related materials.  No further pollution concerns at this time."
  },
  "sewage": [
    {
      "duration_h": null,
      "component": "Storm Drain",
      "component_id": 5,
      "volume_gal": null,
      "volume_unknown": null,
      "wet_weather": null,
      "treated": null,
      "precipitation_in": null,
      "causes": [
        "Other"
      ],
      "impacts": [
        "Sewage on Land Surface with Potential Human Exposure"
      ],
      "corrective_action": "No sewage observed",
      "steps_taken": null,
      "component_comment": null,
      "other_cause": null
    }
  ],
  "status_log": [
    {
      "at": "2026-05-11T14:26:52",
      "type": "Call Received"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-05-12T07:23:26",
      "type": "Under Investigation"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-05-12T07:23:27",
      "type": "Assigned"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-05-26T00:00:00",
      "type": "Site Visit"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-05-27T11:12:57",
      "type": "Closed Call/IR"
    }
  ],
  "created_in_prep": "2026-05-11T14:26:52",
  "event_type_basis": "site name begins 'SSO' (DEQ category: Risk Tier 2, Pollutant Discharge to Land)",
  "permit": {
    "typed_permit": null,
    "deq_vpdes_links": null,
    "ms4": null,
    "ms4_links": null,
    "basis": "none"
  },
  "discharger_match": {
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    "by_name": null
  },
  "volume_basis": null,
  "_ended_at_basis": null,
  "_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": null,
    "towns": [
      "Newport News",
      "Newport News City"
    ],
    "notes": null,
    "echo_outfall": null
  },
  "point": {
    "lat": 37.080653,
    "lon": -76.459691,
    "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": "2026-05-11T10:00:25-04:00",
    "edma_received": "2026-05-11T14:26:52-04:00"
  },
  "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/323494?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), Tidewater Regional Office via Virginia DEQ Pollution Response Program (PReP) pollution reports, sewage-related, record 323494, reported May 11, 2026, 2:26 PM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-03 02:40 UTC · Read the original notice

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