Sanitary sewer overflow (SSO) reported, May 19, 2026

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  "report": {
    "id": "323606",
    "via": "api",
    "incident": "2026-05-19T08:56:48",
    "incident_end": null,
    "received": "2026-05-19T11:20:10",
    "closed": "2026-05-22T10:30:53",
    "modified": "2026-05-22T10:30:52",
    "date_unknown": false,
    "site_name": "SSO - 4101 Washington Ave - Newport News",
    "address": "4101 Washington Ave",
    "city": "Newport News",
    "zip": "23607",
    "county_city": "Newport News City",
    "region": "Tidewater",
    "status_text": "Closed",
    "categories": [
      "Sanitary Sewer Overflow",
      "Risk Tier 2"
    ],
    "waterbody": "James River",
    "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": "Y",
    "responsible_company": null,
    "still_occurring": "N"
  },
  "text": {
    "incident_comment": "DEQ received a report of a sanitary sewer overflow from Newport News Shipbuilding.  Advised that a blockage caused the release of approximately 200 gallons of material.  Maintenance staff removed the blockage and used a vacuum truck to control the release.  Additional vacuuming occurred on the roadway and bleach was applied.  Five Day Letter received.",
    "location_comment": "Building 1785 in the Northern part of the shipyard",
    "closure_comment": "Five day letter received.  No further pollution concerns at this time."
  },
  "sewage": [
    {
      "duration_h": null,
      "component": "Pipe",
      "component_id": 10,
      "volume_gal": 200,
      "volume_unknown": null,
      "wet_weather": null,
      "treated": "Y",
      "precipitation_in": null,
      "causes": [
        "Blockage"
      ],
      "impacts": [
        "Sewage on Land Surface with Potential Human Exposure",
        "Discharge to State Waters"
      ],
      "corrective_action": "Vac standing sewage on roadway and strom drain.  Bleach applied",
      "steps_taken": null,
      "component_comment": null,
      "other_cause": null
    }
  ],
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    {
      "at": "2026-05-19T11:20:14",
      "type": "Call Received"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-05-20T07:45:11",
      "type": "Under Investigation"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-05-20T07:45:11",
      "type": "Assigned"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-05-22T10:30:53",
      "type": "Closed Call/IR"
    }
  ],
  "created_in_prep": "2026-05-19T11:20:14",
  "event_type_basis": "DEQ category Sanitary Sewer Overflow",
  "permit": {
    "typed_permit": "VA0004804",
    "deq_vpdes_links": null,
    "ms4": null,
    "ms4_links": null,
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  },
  "discharger_match": {
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    "by_name": null
  },
  "volume_basis": "sewage report discharge volume (gallons)",
  "_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": "James River",
    "towns": [
      "Newport News",
      "Newport News City"
    ],
    "notes": null,
    "echo_outfall": null
  },
  "point": {
    "lat": 36.988026,
    "lon": -76.436779,
    "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": "2026-05-19T08:56:48-04:00",
    "edma_received": "2026-05-19T11:20:10-04:00"
  },
  "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/323606?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 323606, reported May 19, 2026, 11:20 AM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-03 02:40 UTC · Read the original notice

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