Sanitary sewer overflow (SSO) reported — Henrico County Department of Public Utilities (Henrico Water Reclamation Facility and collection system), Jul 6, 2026

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  "report": {
    "id": "324280",
    "via": "api",
    "incident": "2026-07-06T21:34:00",
    "incident_end": null,
    "received": "2026-07-07T09:29:00",
    "closed": "2026-07-09T08:12:21",
    "modified": "2026-07-09T08:12:21",
    "date_unknown": false,
    "site_name": "SSO - Henrico Conveyance - Almond Creek Sewage Pumping Station manhole SMH#052NE009",
    "address": "5700 Old Osborne Turnpike",
    "city": "Richmond",
    "zip": "23231",
    "county_city": "Richmond City",
    "region": "Piedmont",
    "status_text": "Closed",
    "categories": [
      "Sanitary Sewer Overflow"
    ],
    "waterbody": "Almond Creek",
    "other_waterbody": null,
    "original_waterbody": "Almond Creek",
    "water_threatened": "Y",
    "low": null,
    "high": null,
    "unit": null,
    "ssors": null,
    "nrc": [],
    "vdem": null,
    "epa": null,
    "facility_name": "Henrico County Water Reclamation Facility",
    "facility_permitted": "Y",
    "responsible_company": null,
    "still_occurring": "N"
  },
  "text": {
    "incident_comment": "A sewage spill occurred from the Henrico County sewage collection system on Sunday, July 6, 2026. The spill occurred at SMH# 052NE009, upstream of the Almond Creek Sewage Pumping Station located at 5700 Old Osborne Turnpike. The spill resulted from excessive rainfall that occurred on July 6, 2026. The overflow ceased once the rain diminished. The spill entered Almond Creek. \n\nThe overflow began on July 6, 2026, at approximately 9:34 PM and ended 316 minutes later at approximately 2:50 AM on July 7, 2026. The sewage spilled from the manhole onto the surrounding grassy area and into Almond Creek. With an average flow rate of 350 gallons per minute, it is estimated that approximately 111,600 gallons of sewage spilled from the manhole. The area surrounding the spill was cleaned and lime was applied. No adverse effects were noted.",
    "location_comment": "A sewage spill occurred at Almond Creek Sewage Pumping Station from SMH#052NE009 on July 6, 2026.",
    "closure_comment": null
  },
  "sewage": [
    {
      "duration_h": 5.27,
      "component": "Pump Station",
      "component_id": 11,
      "volume_gal": 110600,
      "volume_unknown": null,
      "wet_weather": "Y",
      "treated": "N",
      "precipitation_in": null,
      "causes": [
        "High Levels of Inflow and/or Infiltration"
      ],
      "impacts": [
        "Discharge to State Waters"
      ],
      "corrective_action": "The overflow ceased once the rain diminish.",
      "steps_taken": null,
      "component_comment": null,
      "other_cause": null
    }
  ],
  "status_log": [
    {
      "at": "2026-07-07T12:42:21",
      "type": "Call Received"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-07-07T12:51:45",
      "type": "Under Investigation"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-07-07T12:51:46",
      "type": "Assigned"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-07-09T08:12:21",
      "type": "Closed Call/IR"
    }
  ],
  "created_in_prep": "2026-07-07T12:42:21",
  "event_type_basis": "DEQ category Sanitary Sewer Overflow",
  "permit": {
    "typed_permit": "VA0063690",
    "deq_vpdes_links": [
      "VA0063690"
    ],
    "ms4": null,
    "ms4_links": null,
    "basis": "DEQ's VPDES link on the report"
  },
  "discharger_match": {
    "by_permit": "va-henrico-dpu",
    "by_name": [
      "va-henrico-dpu"
    ],
    "result": "by permit"
  },
  "volume_basis": "sewage report discharge volume (gallons)",
  "_ended_at_basis": "incident time + duration 5.27 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": "Almond Creek",
    "towns": [
      "Richmond",
      "Richmond City"
    ],
    "notes": null,
    "echo_outfall": null
  },
  "point": {
    "lat": 37.505873,
    "lon": -77.412081,
    "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": "2026-07-06T21:34:00-04:00",
    "edma_received": "2026-07-07T09:29:00-04:00"
  },
  "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/324280?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 324280, reported Jul 7, 2026, 9:29 AM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-03 02:40 UTC · Read the original notice

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