Sanitary sewer overflow (SSO) reported, Jul 27, 2026

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{
  "report": {
    "id": "324594",
    "via": "api",
    "incident": "2026-07-27T07:10:48",
    "incident_end": null,
    "received": "2026-07-27T11:23:54",
    "closed": "2026-07-31T11:42:53",
    "modified": "2026-07-31T11:42:53",
    "date_unknown": false,
    "site_name": "SSO - Norfolk Naval Shipyard - Portsmouth",
    "address": "2600-2700 Effingham St.",
    "city": "Portsmouth",
    "zip": "23709",
    "county_city": "Portsmouth City",
    "region": "Tidewater",
    "status_text": "Closed",
    "categories": [
      "Unauthorized Discharge of Pollutant(s)",
      "Risk Tier 2"
    ],
    "waterbody": "Elizabeth River",
    "other_waterbody": null,
    "original_waterbody": null,
    "water_threatened": "Y",
    "low": null,
    "high": null,
    "unit": null,
    "ssors": null,
    "nrc": [],
    "vdem": null,
    "epa": null,
    "facility_name": "Norfolk Naval Shipyard",
    "facility_permitted": "Y",
    "responsible_company": null,
    "still_occurring": "N"
  },
  "text": {
    "incident_comment": "DEQ received a report stating,  Unauthorized Release of Sewage at NNSY Pier 5 due to a breaker for the lift station tripping, causing sanitary sewer to overfill onto the ground and into the river. Amount of sewage that entered the river is unknown at this time.\n\n5 Day Letter received.",
    "location_comment": "NNSY Pier 5 Lift Station",
    "closure_comment": "5 Day Letter received. No environmental impacts anticipated. No further action at this time."
  },
  "sewage": [
    {
      "duration_h": null,
      "component": "Pump Station Failure",
      "component_id": 4,
      "volume_gal": null,
      "volume_unknown": "Y",
      "wet_weather": "N",
      "treated": "N",
      "precipitation_in": null,
      "causes": [
        "Pump Station"
      ],
      "impacts": [
        "Discharge to State Waters"
      ],
      "corrective_action": "Unauthorized Release of Sewage at NNSY Pier 5 due to a breaker for the lift station tripping, causing sanitary sewer to overfill onto the ground and into the river. Amount of sewage that entered the river is unknown at this time.",
      "steps_taken": null,
      "component_comment": null,
      "other_cause": null
    }
  ],
  "status_log": [
    {
      "at": "2026-07-27T11:23:56",
      "type": "Call Received"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-07-27T11:54:55",
      "type": "Assigned"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-07-27T11:54:55",
      "type": "Under Investigation"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-07-31T11:42:53",
      "type": "Closed Call/IR"
    }
  ],
  "created_in_prep": "2026-07-27T11:23:56",
  "event_type_basis": "site name begins 'SSO' (DEQ category: Unauthorized Discharge of Pollutant(s), Risk Tier 2)",
  "permit": {
    "typed_permit": "VA0005215",
    "deq_vpdes_links": [
      "VA0005215"
    ],
    "ms4": null,
    "ms4_links": null,
    "basis": "DEQ's VPDES link on the report"
  },
  "discharger_match": {
    "by_permit": null,
    "by_name": null
  },
  "volume_basis": null,
  "_ended_at_basis": null,
  "_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": "Elizabeth River",
    "towns": [
      "Portsmouth",
      "Portsmouth City"
    ],
    "notes": [
      "'elizabeth river': the point is not near any of the 1 Virginia waters with this name: not used"
    ],
    "echo_outfall": null
  },
  "point": {
    "lat": 36.812457,
    "lon": -76.302946,
    "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": "2026-07-27T07:10:48-04:00",
    "edma_received": "2026-07-27T11:23:54-04:00"
  },
  "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/324594?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 324594, reported Jul 27, 2026, 11:23 AM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-03 02:40 UTC · Read the original notice

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