Sanitary sewer overflow (SSO) reported, May 25, 2026

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{
  "report": {
    "id": "323675",
    "via": "api",
    "incident": "2026-05-25T14:56:55",
    "incident_end": null,
    "received": "2026-05-25T17:36:25",
    "closed": "2026-05-27T14:17:26",
    "modified": "2026-05-27T14:50:45",
    "date_unknown": false,
    "site_name": "SSO - Unpermitted - Prince William Water - Joyce Rd",
    "address": "13736 Joyce Rd",
    "city": "Woodbridge",
    "zip": "22191",
    "county_city": "Prince William County",
    "region": "Northern",
    "status_text": "Closed",
    "categories": [
      "Risk Tier 1",
      "Sanitary Sewer Overflow"
    ],
    "waterbody": "Marumsco Creek",
    "other_waterbody": "UT of Marumsco Creek",
    "original_waterbody": null,
    "water_threatened": "Y",
    "low": 1,
    "high": -1,
    "unit": "Unknown",
    "ssors": null,
    "nrc": [],
    "vdem": null,
    "epa": null,
    "facility_name": null,
    "facility_permitted": "N",
    "responsible_company": "Prince William Water",
    "still_occurring": "N"
  },
  "text": {
    "incident_comment": "On May 27, 2026, the facility staff submitted a 5-day letter explaining how the SSO issue was resolved. No further action is requered.",
    "location_comment": "Sanitary Sewer manhole at Joyce Road",
    "closure_comment": null
  },
  "sewage": [
    {
      "duration_h": 2,
      "component": "Manhole",
      "component_id": 1,
      "volume_gal": 320,
      "volume_unknown": null,
      "wet_weather": "N",
      "treated": null,
      "precipitation_in": null,
      "causes": [
        "Broken Pipe"
      ],
      "impacts": [
        "Sewage on Land Surface with Potential Human Exposure"
      ],
      "corrective_action": "A CCTV inspection confirmed the location of the damaged pipe, and a contractor has been engaged to repair the affected section. Out of an abundance of caution, Prince William Water posted SSO warning signs in the vicinity of the overflow. Public notifications were posted on the corporate website and on social media outlets (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, etc.)",
      "steps_taken": null,
      "component_comment": null,
      "other_cause": null
    }
  ],
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    {
      "at": "2026-05-25T17:36:26",
      "type": "Call Received"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-05-26T10:18:03",
      "type": "Assigned"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-05-26T10:18:03",
      "type": "Under Investigation"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-05-27T13:52:18",
      "type": "Program Participant Assigned"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-05-27T14:17:26",
      "type": "Closed Call/IR"
    }
  ],
  "created_in_prep": "2026-05-25T17:36:26",
  "event_type_basis": "DEQ category Sanitary Sewer Overflow",
  "permit": {
    "typed_permit": null,
    "deq_vpdes_links": null,
    "ms4": null,
    "ms4_links": null,
    "basis": "none"
  },
  "discharger_match": {
    "by_permit": null,
    "by_name": null
  },
  "volume_basis": "sewage report discharge volume (gallons)",
  "_ended_at_basis": "incident time + duration 2 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": "Marumsco Creek; UT of Marumsco Creek",
    "towns": [
      "Woodbridge",
      "Prince William County"
    ],
    "notes": null,
    "echo_outfall": null
  },
  "point": {
    "lat": 38.653537,
    "lon": -77.244519,
    "layer": "DEQ EDMA layer 175 (PReP Reports, Daily)",
    "reference_point": "FC",
    "note": "DEQ's geocode of the report's site address (REFERENCE_POINT 'PG'), not an outfall point",
    "edma_incident": "2026-05-25T14:56:55-04:00",
    "edma_received": "2026-05-25T17:36:25-04:00"
  },
  "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/323675?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 323675, reported May 25, 2026, 5:36 PM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-03 02:40 UTC · Read the original notice

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