Sanitary sewer overflow (SSO) reported — City of Hopewell - Hopewell Water Renewal, Aug 5, 2026

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  "report": {
    "id": "324768",
    "via": "api",
    "incident": "2026-08-05T00:00:00",
    "incident_end": null,
    "received": "2026-08-05T14:09:00",
    "closed": "2026-08-11T12:13:31",
    "modified": "2026-08-11T12:13:31",
    "date_unknown": false,
    "site_name": "SSO - Hopewell Conveyance - Manhole at Broadway and 14th Avenue",
    "address": "Broadway and 14th Avenue",
    "city": "Hopewell",
    "zip": "23860",
    "county_city": "Hopewell City",
    "region": "Piedmont",
    "status_text": "Closed",
    "categories": [
      "Sanitary Sewer Overflow"
    ],
    "waterbody": null,
    "other_waterbody": null,
    "original_waterbody": null,
    "water_threatened": "Y",
    "low": -1,
    "high": 1,
    "unit": "Gallons",
    "ssors": null,
    "nrc": [],
    "vdem": null,
    "epa": null,
    "facility_name": "Hopewell Water Renewal",
    "facility_permitted": "Y",
    "responsible_company": null,
    "still_occurring": "N"
  },
  "text": {
    "incident_comment": "This letter serves as Hopewell Water Renewal’s 5-day follow-up report concerning the torrential rainfall experienced on August 4, 2026 (6+ inches of rain across the region) and the resulting impacts to the wastewater collection and pump station systems. Below is an updated list of impacted locations associated with the August 4th storm event. \n\n•\tFirst Street Pump Station, 1401 South First Avenue, Hopewell, VA \n•\tNorth Colonial Pump Station, 3515 N. Colonial Drive, Hopewell, VA\n•\tManhole at 900 Pine Ave, Hopewell, VA \n•\tManhole at Broadway and 14th Ave, Hopewell, VA\n•\tManholes at Mansion Hills Pump Station, 600 A Victoria St, Hopewell, VA\n•\tStation Street Pump Station, 509 Station Street, Hopewell, VA\n•\tManhole at Circle and Norton St and Cleanouts at 212 Circle Drive, Hopewell, VA\n•\tManhole near 3011 Oaklawn Blvd, Hopewell, VA  (was reported by VAWCo but not visualized by HWR Staff)\n•\tManhole at 509 N 2nd Street, Hopewell, VA\n•\tSherwood Lane Pump Station, 3400 Sherwood Ave, Hopewell, VA \n\nAll pump station impacts and sanitary sewer overflows observed in connection with the rainfall event were resolved within a few hours of the rain stopping. The affected locations were addressed by City of Hopewell Collection System or Pump Station crews, as appropriate. Necessary response activities were completed, and operating conditions returned to normal the following day.\n\nAs of this 5-day communication,  no active overflows or abnormal pump station conditions remain following the events of August 4th.  Please contact [name removed], P.E. with any further questions at [email removed], or [phone removed] x501.",
    "location_comment": "Manhole at Broadway and 14th Ave, Hopewell, VA",
    "closure_comment": null
  },
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    {
      "duration_h": null,
      "component": "Manhole",
      "component_id": 1,
      "volume_gal": null,
      "volume_unknown": "Y",
      "wet_weather": "Y",
      "treated": "N",
      "precipitation_in": 6,
      "causes": [
        "High Levels of Inflow and/or Infiltration"
      ],
      "impacts": [
        "Sewage on Land Surface with Potential Human Exposure"
      ],
      "corrective_action": "All pump station impacts and sanitary sewer overflows observed in connection with the rainfall event were resolved within a few hours of the rain stopping.",
      "steps_taken": null,
      "component_comment": null,
      "other_cause": null
    }
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      "at": "2026-08-06T10:05:20",
      "type": "Call Received"
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      "at": "2026-08-06T10:10:48",
      "type": "Under Investigation"
    },
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      "at": "2026-08-06T10:10:48",
      "type": "Assigned"
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    {
      "at": "2026-08-11T12:13:31",
      "type": "Closed Call/IR"
    }
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  "created_in_prep": "2026-08-06T10:05:20",
  "event_type_basis": "DEQ category Sanitary Sewer Overflow",
  "permit": {
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      "VA0066630"
    ],
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    "basis": "DEQ's VPDES link on the report"
  },
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  "volume_basis": "DEQ estimate of the quantity reaching water",
  "_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": null,
    "towns": [
      "Hopewell",
      "Hopewell City"
    ],
    "notes": null,
    "echo_outfall": null
  },
  "point": {
    "lat": 37.302911,
    "lon": -77.299739,
    "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": "2026-08-05T00:00:00-04:00",
    "edma_received": "2026-08-05T14:09:00-04:00"
  },
  "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/324768?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 324768, reported Aug 5, 2026, 2:09 PM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-03 02:40 UTC · Read the original notice

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