Sanitary sewer overflow (SSO) reported, Jul 28, 2026

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{
  "report": {
    "id": "324635",
    "via": "api",
    "incident": "2026-07-28T11:10:15",
    "incident_end": null,
    "received": "2026-07-28T16:55:27",
    "closed": "2026-07-31T11:44:34",
    "modified": "2026-07-31T11:44:34",
    "date_unknown": false,
    "site_name": "SSO - Norfolk Naval Shipyard - Portsmouth",
    "address": "2600-2700 Effingham St. Portsmouth, VA, 23709",
    "city": "Portsmouth",
    "zip": "23709",
    "county_city": "Portsmouth City",
    "region": "Tidewater",
    "status_text": "Closed",
    "categories": [
      "Sanitary Sewer Overflow",
      "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": null,
    "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 the 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. Spill response teams immediately responded and cleaned up the spill, and electricians were able to determine the root cause (will be explained further in 5-day letter), restore the breaker, lift station pumps and alarm.  There will also be facility personnel roving every 2 hours to check the level of the lift station overnight.\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",
      "component_id": 11,
      "volume_gal": null,
      "volume_unknown": "Y",
      "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": "2026-07-28T16:55:28",
      "type": "Call Received"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-07-29T08:07:00",
      "type": "Under Investigation"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-07-29T08:07:01",
      "type": "Assigned"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-07-31T11:44:34",
      "type": "Closed Call/IR"
    }
  ],
  "created_in_prep": "2026-07-28T16:55:28",
  "event_type_basis": "DEQ category Sanitary Sewer Overflow",
  "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": 36.817129,
    "lon": -76.295586,
    "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": "2026-07-28T11:10:15-04:00",
    "edma_received": "2026-07-28T16:55:27-04:00"
  },
  "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/324635?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 324635, reported Jul 28, 2026, 4:55 PM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-03 02:40 UTC · Read the original notice

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