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    "via": "api",
    "incident": "2026-08-04T15:58:57",
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    "received": "2026-08-04T17:06:24",
    "closed": "2026-08-05T08:33:11",
    "modified": "2026-08-05T08:46:08",
    "date_unknown": false,
    "site_name": "Mylar Specialty Films Hopewell",
    "address": "3600 DISCOVERY DR",
    "city": "CHESTER",
    "zip": "23836",
    "county_city": "Chesterfield County",
    "region": "Piedmont",
    "status_text": "Closed",
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    "water_threatened": "N",
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    "facility_permitted": "Y",
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    "still_occurring": "N"
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  "text": {
    "incident_comment": "We received a very large amount of rainfall today. At our facility at 3600 Discovery Dr we have a sanitary plant onsite to treat waste. With the amount of rain we received in a short time it overwhelmed and caused our system to overflow. We took immediate action to shut down the plant as much as possible and put containment up. Water certainly got on the ground but flowed by gravity back into the system. No sanitary water contacted any state waters",
    "location_comment": "Sanitary plant on chemical plant property",
    "closure_comment": "Referred to compliance for follow up."
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      "component_comment": "WWTP",
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    }
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      "type": "Call Received"
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      "at": "2026-08-05T07:34:36",
      "type": "Assigned"
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      "at": "2026-08-05T07:34:36",
      "type": "Under Investigation"
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  "event_type_basis": "DEQ category Pollutant Discharge to Land is not a sewer-overflow category",
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    "deq_vpdes_links": [
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  "_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": {
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    "towns": [
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    "lon": -77.29096,
    "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",
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    "edma_received": "2026-08-04T17:06:24-04:00"
  },
  "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/324736?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 324736, reported Aug 4, 2026, 5:06 PM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-03 02:40 UTC · Read the original notice

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