Sanitary sewer overflow (SSO) reported — City of Hopewell - Hopewell Water Renewal, May 25, 2026

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  "report": {
    "id": "323707",
    "via": "api",
    "incident": "2026-05-25T00:00:00",
    "incident_end": null,
    "received": "2026-05-26T15:57:00",
    "closed": "2026-05-27T08:52:59",
    "modified": "2026-05-27T08:52:59",
    "date_unknown": false,
    "site_name": "SSO - Hopewell Conveyance - First Street Pump Station",
    "address": "1401 South First Avenue",
    "city": "Hopewell",
    "zip": "23860",
    "county_city": "Hopewell City",
    "region": "Piedmont",
    "status_text": "Closed",
    "categories": [
      "Sanitary Sewer Overflow"
    ],
    "waterbody": "Bear Creek",
    "other_waterbody": null,
    "original_waterbody": "Bear Creek",
    "water_threatened": "Y",
    "low": null,
    "high": null,
    "unit": null,
    "ssors": null,
    "nrc": [],
    "vdem": null,
    "epa": null,
    "facility_name": "Hopewell Water Renewal",
    "facility_permitted": "Y",
    "responsible_company": null,
    "still_occurring": "N"
  },
  "text": {
    "incident_comment": "All pertinent information contained in initial notification",
    "location_comment": "Prior to heavy rain event on 5/25 the First st Pumping station pumps were functional.  However, the sudden storm surged the station with rags. Pumps were unable to process both the added flow and the sudden arrival of rags before becoming blocked.  Wet well level quickly rose while staff were present and overflowed only a short time while staff actively cleared the debris.",
    "closure_comment": null
  },
  "sewage": [
    {
      "duration_h": 0.5,
      "component": "Pump Station",
      "component_id": 11,
      "volume_gal": 2000,
      "volume_unknown": null,
      "wet_weather": "Y",
      "treated": "N",
      "precipitation_in": 3.98,
      "causes": [
        "Pump Station"
      ],
      "impacts": [
        "Discharge to State Waters"
      ],
      "corrective_action": "None cited as the events were unavoidable under the torrential circumstances following a long period of dry weather conditions.",
      "steps_taken": null,
      "component_comment": null,
      "other_cause": null
    }
  ],
  "status_log": [
    {
      "at": "2026-05-27T08:46:06",
      "type": "Call Received"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-05-27T08:52:49",
      "type": "Assigned"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-05-27T08:52:49",
      "type": "Under Investigation"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-05-27T08:52:59",
      "type": "Closed Call/IR"
    }
  ],
  "created_in_prep": "2026-05-27T08:46:06",
  "event_type_basis": "DEQ category Sanitary Sewer Overflow",
  "permit": {
    "typed_permit": "VA0066630",
    "deq_vpdes_links": [
      "VA0066630"
    ],
    "ms4": null,
    "ms4_links": null,
    "basis": "DEQ's VPDES link on the report"
  },
  "discharger_match": {
    "by_permit": "va-hopewell-water-renewal",
    "by_name": [
      "va-hopewell-water-renewal"
    ],
    "result": "by permit"
  },
  "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": "Bear Creek",
    "towns": [
      "Hopewell",
      "Hopewell City"
    ],
    "notes": null,
    "echo_outfall": null
  },
  "point": {
    "lat": 37.290738,
    "lon": -77.286327,
    "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": "2026-05-25T00:00:00-04:00",
    "edma_received": "2026-05-26T15:57:00-04:00"
  },
  "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/323707?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), Piedmont Regional Office via Virginia DEQ Pollution Response Program (PReP) pollution reports, sewage-related, record 323707, reported May 26, 2026, 3:57 PM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-03 02:40 UTC · Read the original notice

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