Sanitary sewer overflow (SSO) reported, Aug 3, 2026

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{
  "report": {
    "id": "324718",
    "via": "api",
    "incident": "2026-08-03T14:10:28",
    "incident_end": null,
    "received": "2026-08-04T09:12:58",
    "closed": "2026-08-04T13:19:17",
    "modified": "2026-08-04T14:11:49",
    "date_unknown": false,
    "site_name": "SSO - Westmoreland County Conveyance - Faulty Valve - Sandpiper Drive and Pelican Way",
    "address": "2585 Coles Point Road",
    "city": "Hague",
    "zip": "22469",
    "county_city": "Westmoreland County",
    "region": "Piedmont",
    "status_text": "Closed",
    "categories": [
      "Sanitary Sewer Overflow"
    ],
    "waterbody": "Cabin Point Creek",
    "other_waterbody": "Cabin Point Creek is a trib to Lower Machodoc Creek",
    "original_waterbody": null,
    "water_threatened": "Y",
    "low": 0,
    "high": 14000,
    "unit": "Gallons",
    "ssors": null,
    "nrc": [],
    "vdem": null,
    "epa": null,
    "facility_name": null,
    "facility_permitted": "N",
    "responsible_company": null,
    "still_occurring": "N"
  },
  "text": {
    "incident_comment": "At 14:30 locality was notified through Sherrif's Office of sewer leak at Sandpiper Drive and Pelican Way.  County staff responded and observed leak at valve.  Line was isolated, Miss Utility emergency ticket was called in.  Contractor was notified, septage pumper was called in.  Pumping and excavation was begun after utilities were marked.  Leak was identified at valve and was reparied by 22:00.  Work was done in rainstorm.  Lime was applied and system was returned to service.",
    "location_comment": "Sandpiper lane - At the Sewer Force Main Marker",
    "closure_comment": null
  },
  "sewage": [
    {
      "duration_h": 8,
      "component": "Other",
      "component_id": 7,
      "volume_gal": 14000,
      "volume_unknown": null,
      "wet_weather": "Y",
      "treated": "N",
      "precipitation_in": null,
      "causes": [
        "Other"
      ],
      "impacts": [
        "Discharge to State Waters"
      ],
      "corrective_action": "Repaired valve.",
      "steps_taken": null,
      "component_comment": "Valve",
      "other_cause": null
    }
  ],
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    {
      "at": "2026-08-04T09:12:59",
      "type": "Call Received"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-08-04T13:19:09",
      "type": "Under Investigation"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-08-04T13:19:09",
      "type": "Assigned"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-08-04T13:19:17",
      "type": "Closed Call/IR"
    }
  ],
  "created_in_prep": "2026-08-04T09:12:59",
  "event_type_basis": "DEQ category Sanitary Sewer Overflow",
  "permit": {
    "typed_permit": null,
    "deq_vpdes_links": null,
    "ms4": null,
    "ms4_links": null,
    "basis": "none"
  },
  "discharger_match": {
    "by_permit": null,
    "by_name": null
  },
  "volume_basis": "sewage report discharge volume (gallons)",
  "_ended_at_basis": "incident time + duration 8 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": "Cabin Point Creek; Cabin Point Creek is a trib to Lower Machodoc Creek",
    "towns": [
      "Hague",
      "Westmoreland County"
    ],
    "notes": [
      "'lower machodoc creek' named as the downstream water: not used"
    ],
    "echo_outfall": null
  },
  "point": {
    "lat": 38.13624,
    "lon": -76.66455,
    "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": "2026-08-03T14:10:28-04:00",
    "edma_received": "2026-08-04T09:12:58-04:00"
  },
  "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/324718?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 324718, reported Aug 4, 2026, 9:12 AM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-03 02:40 UTC · Read the original notice

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