Sanitary sewer overflow (SSO) reported — City of Fredericksburg Wastewater Treatment Facility, Jul 10, 2026

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{
  "report": {
    "id": "324338",
    "via": "api",
    "incident": "2026-07-10T08:30:24",
    "incident_end": null,
    "received": "2026-07-10T11:15:38",
    "closed": "2026-07-14T15:19:22",
    "modified": "2026-07-14T15:19:22",
    "date_unknown": false,
    "site_name": "SSO - Fredericksburg City - F'Burg WWTF - Caroline St",
    "address": "2222 Caroline St",
    "city": "Fredericksburg",
    "zip": "22401",
    "county_city": "Fredericksburg City",
    "region": "Northern",
    "status_text": "Closed",
    "categories": [
      "Sanitary Sewer Overflow",
      "Risk Tier 2"
    ],
    "waterbody": "Rappahannock River",
    "other_waterbody": "UT of Rappahannock River",
    "original_waterbody": null,
    "water_threatened": "Y",
    "low": 1000,
    "high": 1000,
    "unit": "Gallons",
    "ssors": null,
    "nrc": [],
    "vdem": null,
    "epa": null,
    "facility_name": "City of Fredericksburg WWTF",
    "facility_permitted": "Y",
    "responsible_company": "City of Fredericksburg WWTP",
    "still_occurring": "N"
  },
  "text": {
    "incident_comment": "SSO of approximately 1000 gallons due to heavy rains as well as power failure (VA Power brown out) at influent pump station.  Weather event ceased, power was restored, and incident ceased.",
    "location_comment": "mh 2222 and mh 9586 near Caroline Street",
    "closure_comment": "Corrective actions taken, incident ceased and five day letter received."
  },
  "sewage": [
    {
      "duration_h": 0.25,
      "component": "Manhole",
      "component_id": 1,
      "volume_gal": 1000,
      "volume_unknown": "N",
      "wet_weather": "Y",
      "treated": "N",
      "precipitation_in": 2.33,
      "causes": [
        "High Levels of Inflow and/or Infiltration",
        "TWTDS Electrical Failure"
      ],
      "impacts": [
        "Discharge to State Waters",
        "Sewage on Land Surface with Potential Human Exposure"
      ],
      "corrective_action": "Infiltration due to heavy rain event as well as power outage at influent pump station.",
      "steps_taken": null,
      "component_comment": null,
      "other_cause": null
    }
  ],
  "status_log": [
    {
      "at": "2026-07-10T11:15:38",
      "type": "Call Received"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-07-10T11:24:53",
      "type": "Under Investigation"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-07-10T11:24:53",
      "type": "Assigned"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-07-14T00:00:00",
      "type": "5-Day Letter"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-07-14T15:19:22",
      "type": "Closed Call/IR"
    }
  ],
  "created_in_prep": "2026-07-10T11:15:38",
  "event_type_basis": "DEQ category Sanitary Sewer Overflow",
  "permit": {
    "typed_permit": "VA0025127",
    "deq_vpdes_links": [
      "VA0025127"
    ],
    "ms4": null,
    "ms4_links": null,
    "basis": "DEQ's VPDES link on the report"
  },
  "discharger_match": {
    "by_permit": "va-fredericksburg",
    "by_name": [
      "va-fredericksburg"
    ],
    "result": "by permit"
  },
  "volume_basis": "sewage report discharge volume (gallons)",
  "_ended_at_basis": "incident time + duration 0.25 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": "Rappahannock River; UT of Rappahannock River",
    "towns": [
      "Fredericksburg",
      "Fredericksburg City"
    ],
    "notes": null,
    "echo_outfall": null
  },
  "point": {
    "lat": 38.314435,
    "lon": -77.467256,
    "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": "2026-07-10T08:30:24-04:00",
    "edma_received": "2026-07-10T11:15:38-04:00"
  },
  "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/324338?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 324338, reported Jul 10, 2026, 11:15 AM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-03 02:40 UTC · Read the original notice

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