Sanitary sewer overflow (SSO) reported, Jul 3, 2026

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{
  "report": {
    "id": "324236",
    "via": "api",
    "incident": "2026-07-03T15:30:19",
    "incident_end": null,
    "received": "2026-07-03T22:35:32",
    "closed": "2026-07-08T10:00:19",
    "modified": "2026-07-08T10:00:19",
    "date_unknown": false,
    "site_name": "SSO VAW Cape Charles - 4 Mason Ave. Cape Charles",
    "address": "4 Mason Ave. Cape Charles Va. 23310",
    "city": "Cape Charles",
    "zip": "23310",
    "county_city": "Northampton County",
    "region": "Tidewater",
    "status_text": "Closed",
    "categories": [
      "Sanitary Sewer Overflow",
      "Risk Tier 2"
    ],
    "waterbody": "Cape Charles Harbor",
    "other_waterbody": null,
    "original_waterbody": null,
    "water_threatened": "Y",
    "low": 1,
    "high": 400,
    "unit": "Gallons",
    "ssors": null,
    "nrc": [],
    "vdem": "VDEM-2026-07-03-0017",
    "epa": null,
    "facility_name": "Cape Charles wastewater treatment plant",
    "facility_permitted": "Y",
    "responsible_company": "Virginia American Water",
    "still_occurring": "N"
  },
  "text": {
    "incident_comment": "VDEM Reports release began at approximately 1930 on 7/3/26. Response by Virginia American Water staff. Sewage flowing from manhole on Mason Ave. into storm sewer. VDH and local EM notified.\n\n7/4/26 - Cleanup completed.\n7/6/26 - Spoke to [name removed] (VAM), 5-day letter requested and partial response received. Updated 5-day letter requested.\n7/7/26 - Revised 5-day Letter Received.",
    "location_comment": "Manhole in front of pump station 4 Mason Ave. Cape Charles, Va.",
    "closure_comment": null
  },
  "sewage": [
    {
      "duration_h": 4,
      "component": "Pump Station Failure",
      "component_id": 4,
      "volume_gal": 14000,
      "volume_unknown": "N",
      "wet_weather": "N",
      "treated": "N",
      "precipitation_in": null,
      "causes": [
        "Blockage"
      ],
      "impacts": [
        "Discharge to State Waters"
      ],
      "corrective_action": "Failure caused by clogged check valve. repair made.",
      "steps_taken": null,
      "component_comment": null,
      "other_cause": null
    }
  ],
  "status_log": [
    {
      "at": "2026-07-03T22:35:33",
      "type": "Call Received"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-07-04T00:00:00",
      "type": "Correspondence Received"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-07-06T00:00:00",
      "type": "Correspondence Received"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-07-06T00:00:00",
      "type": "Phone Call"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-07-06T06:51:10",
      "type": "Under Investigation"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-07-06T06:51:10",
      "type": "Assigned"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-07-07T00:00:00",
      "type": "5-Day Letter"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-07-08T10:00:19",
      "type": "Closed Call/IR"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-07-09T00:00:00",
      "type": "Phone Call"
    }
  ],
  "created_in_prep": "2026-07-03T22:35:33",
  "event_type_basis": "DEQ category Sanitary Sewer Overflow",
  "permit": {
    "typed_permit": "VA0021288",
    "deq_vpdes_links": null,
    "ms4": null,
    "ms4_links": null,
    "basis": "permit number on the original report"
  },
  "discharger_match": {
    "by_permit": null,
    "by_name": null
  },
  "volume_basis": "sewage report discharge volume (gallons)",
  "_ended_at_basis": "incident time + duration 4 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": "Cape Charles Harbor",
    "towns": [
      "Cape Charles",
      "Northampton County"
    ],
    "notes": null,
    "echo_outfall": null
  },
  "point": {
    "lat": 37.266793,
    "lon": -76.022827,
    "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": "2026-07-03T15:30:19-04:00",
    "edma_received": "2026-07-03T22:35:32-04:00"
  },
  "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/324236?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 324236, reported Jul 3, 2026, 10:35 PM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-03 02:40 UTC · Read the original notice

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