Sanitary sewer overflow (SSO) reported — City of Hopewell - Hopewell Water Renewal, Jul 14, 2026

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  "report": {
    "id": "324390",
    "via": "api",
    "incident": "2026-07-14T06:00:00",
    "incident_end": null,
    "received": "2026-07-14T12:15:00",
    "closed": "2026-07-24T16:41:53",
    "modified": "2026-07-24T16:41:53",
    "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": "Cattail Creek",
    "other_waterbody": null,
    "original_waterbody": "Cattail 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": "On July 14, 2026, the City of Hopewell reported a domestic sanitary sewer overflow at the First Street Pump Station. The incident was caused by a 2–3 inch hole in an underground force main, resulting in a discharge into a swampy area of Cattail Creek. On July 16, 2026, VDH issued a recreational advisory that included the James River from City Point to Jordan Point.  The force main was repaired on July 21, 2026 and the discharge ceased.  VDH lifted the advisory on July 23, 2026. The total volume released is estimated to be approximately 1.5 million gallons. Response efforts were coordinated among VDH (OEHS and the Crater Health District), DEQ, and the City of Hopewell.",
    "location_comment": "First Street Pump Station",
    "closure_comment": "Case managed by VPDES.  Discharge ceased on 7/21/26"
  },
  "sewage": [
    {
      "duration_h": 174,
      "component": "Pump Station Failure",
      "component_id": 4,
      "volume_gal": 1500000,
      "volume_unknown": null,
      "wet_weather": "N",
      "treated": "N",
      "precipitation_in": null,
      "causes": [
        "Pump Station"
      ],
      "impacts": [
        "Discharge to State Waters"
      ],
      "corrective_action": "Repaired pump station",
      "steps_taken": null,
      "component_comment": null,
      "other_cause": null
    }
  ],
  "status_log": [
    {
      "at": "2026-07-14T12:37:47",
      "type": "Call Received"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-07-14T12:37:55",
      "type": "Under Investigation"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-07-14T12:37:55",
      "type": "Assigned"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-07-24T16:41:53",
      "type": "Closed Call/IR"
    }
  ],
  "created_in_prep": "2026-07-14T12:37:47",
  "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": "incident time + duration 174 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": "Cattail 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": "2026-07-14T06:00:00-04:00",
    "edma_received": "2026-07-14T12:15:00-04:00"
  },
  "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/324390?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 324390, reported Jul 14, 2026, 12:15 PM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-03 02:40 UTC · Read the original notice

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