Report not fully read reported — Town of Tappahannock Wastewater Treatment Plant, Jun 8, 2026

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  "report": {
    "id": "323894",
    "via": "api",
    "incident": "2026-06-08T10:30:00",
    "incident_end": null,
    "received": "2026-06-08T14:36:00",
    "closed": "2026-06-09T05:49:28",
    "modified": "2026-06-09T05:49:28",
    "date_unknown": false,
    "site_name": "UPD - Tappahannock Conveyance - sewer line damaged near 1000 blk of Marsh Street",
    "address": "1000 Marsh Street",
    "city": "Tappahannock",
    "zip": "22560",
    "county_city": "Essex County",
    "region": "Piedmont",
    "status_text": "Closed",
    "categories": [
      "Unauthorized Discharge of Pollutant(s)"
    ],
    "waterbody": null,
    "other_waterbody": null,
    "original_waterbody": null,
    "water_threatened": "N",
    "low": null,
    "high": null,
    "unit": null,
    "ssors": null,
    "nrc": [],
    "vdem": null,
    "epa": null,
    "facility_name": "Tappahannock Town of WWTP",
    "facility_permitted": "Y",
    "responsible_company": null,
    "still_occurring": "N"
  },
  "text": {
    "incident_comment": "This letter is to inform you of the discharge of Raw Domestic Sewage which occurred due to a construction mishap on Monday June 8th, 2026.\nThe Town of Tappahannock experienced a force main break of Raw Domestic Sewage located at the 1,000 block of Marsh St in the Town of Tappahannock, due to a construction mishap. The construction company was installing a fence on the 1,000 block of Marsh St when they drilled into a force main sewer line.\nThe sewer line was repaired successfully in the accordance and reporting requirements of the VPDESA Permit for the Town of Tappahannock Va.\n\nOrder of Event:\n\n6/8/2026 at 10:30hrs – Construction crew Hercules Fence Company hired by Essex County drilled into a force sewer main at the 1,000 bock of Marsh Street in the Town of Tappahannock.\n6/8/2026 at 10:40Hrs – [name removed] Supervisor utility Crew was notified and on site within 5 minutes of the call.\n6/8/2026 at 11:00Hrs – Utility crew and maintenance personnel were on site, I [name removed] Director of wastewater arrived on site minutes later.\n6/8/2026 at 11:10Hrs – Flow was stopped at sewer line breakage, Utility pump truck was on site, pulling all sewage from site.\n6/8/2026 at 11:25Hrs – Breakage was located and repairs begun.\n6/8/2026 at 12:20Hrs – Repairs completed, flow established back into sewage line.\n6/8/2026 at 12:45Hrs – Cleanup of effect area began.\n6/8/2026 at 13:30Hrs – Cleanup finished.\n\n\nTotal (Estimated) loss of Raw domestic Sewage is estimated at less than 500 gallons.\nThe area of the leak was repaired and cleaned as best as time allowed.\nNo adverse effects or signs of spillage into any receiving waters.",
    "location_comment": "Construction crew drilled into sewer line while installing fence near the 1,000 block of Marsh St in the Town of Tappahannock",
    "closure_comment": null
  },
  "sewage": [
    {
      "duration_h": 0.5,
      "component": "Pipe",
      "component_id": 10,
      "volume_gal": 500,
      "volume_unknown": null,
      "wet_weather": "N",
      "treated": "N",
      "precipitation_in": null,
      "causes": [
        "Other"
      ],
      "impacts": [
        "Sewage on Land Surface with Potential Human Exposure"
      ],
      "corrective_action": "Construction crew drilled into sewer line while installing fence near the 1,000 block of Marsh St in the Town of Tappahannock. Utilities crew were notified, flow was terminated to service line within 30 minutes – repairs began immediately – repairs were made and area cleaned up.",
      "steps_taken": null,
      "component_comment": null,
      "other_cause": null
    }
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    {
      "at": "2026-06-09T05:37:50",
      "type": "Call Received"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-06-09T05:49:21",
      "type": "Assigned"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-06-09T05:49:21",
      "type": "Under Investigation"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-06-09T05:49:28",
      "type": "Closed Call/IR"
    }
  ],
  "created_in_prep": "2026-06-09T05:37:50",
  "event_type_basis": "DEQ category Unauthorized Discharge of Pollutant(s) is not a sewer-overflow category",
  "permit": {
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      "VA0071471"
    ],
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    "basis": "DEQ's VPDES link on the report"
  },
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    "by_name": null,
    "result": "by permit"
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  "volume_basis": "sewage report discharge volume (gallons)",
  "_ended_at_basis": "incident time + duration 0.5 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": null,
    "towns": [
      "Tappahannock",
      "Essex County"
    ],
    "notes": null,
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  },
  "point": {
    "lat": 37.924001,
    "lon": -76.870484,
    "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": "2026-06-08T10:30:00-04:00",
    "edma_received": "2026-06-08T14:36:00-04:00"
  },
  "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/323894?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 323894, reported Jun 8, 2026, 2:36 PM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-03 02:40 UTC · Read the original notice

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