Sanitary sewer overflow (SSO) reported, Aug 4, 2026

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  "report": {
    "id": "324728",
    "via": "api",
    "incident": "2026-08-04T11:00:00",
    "incident_end": null,
    "received": "2026-08-04T11:00:00",
    "closed": "2026-09-30T07:59:54",
    "modified": "2026-09-30T07:59:54",
    "date_unknown": false,
    "site_name": "SSO - 25096 Lankford Highway Onley",
    "address": "25096 Lankford Hwy.",
    "city": "Onley",
    "zip": "23418",
    "county_city": "Accomack County",
    "region": "Tidewater",
    "status_text": "Closed",
    "categories": [
      "Unauthorized Discharge of Pollutant(s)",
      "Risk Tier 2"
    ],
    "waterbody": "Onancock Creek",
    "other_waterbody": null,
    "original_waterbody": "Onancock Creek",
    "water_threatened": "Y",
    "low": null,
    "high": null,
    "unit": null,
    "ssors": null,
    "nrc": [],
    "vdem": null,
    "epa": null,
    "facility_name": null,
    "facility_permitted": "N",
    "responsible_company": null,
    "still_occurring": "Y"
  },
  "text": {
    "incident_comment": "Sewage release observed at the rear of the property. Floating solids including grease observed. Flow to drop inlet. Algae present indicating long term flow. VDH reported this to DEQ stated that it had been brought to the attention of management several weeks prior with no corrective action to date.\n\n8/4/26 - Site visit, sewage observed running to storm drain\n8/5/26 - 5-day letter received. Initial corrective action completed. Longer term corrective action planned by 8/27/26.\n8/31/26 - Site visit\n9/30/26 - Additiona Response - Closed.",
    "location_comment": "Rear of building.",
    "closure_comment": null
  },
  "sewage": [
    {
      "duration_h": null,
      "component": "Cleanout",
      "component_id": 14,
      "volume_gal": null,
      "volume_unknown": "Y",
      "wet_weather": "N",
      "treated": "N",
      "precipitation_in": null,
      "causes": [],
      "impacts": [],
      "corrective_action": null,
      "steps_taken": null,
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    }
  ],
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      "at": "2026-08-04T00:00:00",
      "type": "Phone Call"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-08-04T00:00:00",
      "type": "Site Visit"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-08-04T13:22:48",
      "type": "Call Received"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-08-04T13:26:17",
      "type": "Under Investigation"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-08-04T13:26:18",
      "type": "Assigned"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-08-06T00:00:00",
      "type": "5-Day Letter"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-08-31T00:00:00",
      "type": "Site Visit"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-09-30T07:59:54",
      "type": "Closed Call/IR"
    }
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  "created_in_prep": "2026-08-04T13:22:48",
  "event_type_basis": "site name begins 'SSO' (DEQ category: Unauthorized Discharge of Pollutant(s), Risk Tier 2)",
  "permit": {
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    "deq_vpdes_links": null,
    "ms4": null,
    "ms4_links": null,
    "basis": "none"
  },
  "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": "Onancock Creek",
    "towns": [
      "Onley",
      "Accomack County"
    ],
    "notes": [
      "'onancock creek': the point is not near any of the 1 Virginia waters with this name: not used"
    ],
    "echo_outfall": null
  },
  "point": {
    "lat": 37.701734,
    "lon": -75.714424,
    "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": "2026-08-04T11:00:00-04:00",
    "edma_received": "2026-08-04T11:00:00-04:00"
  },
  "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/324728?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 324728, reported Aug 4, 2026, 11:00 AM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-03 02:40 UTC · Read the original notice

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