Sanitary sewer overflow (SSO) reported, Aug 6, 2026

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  "report": {
    "id": "324781",
    "via": "api",
    "incident": "2026-08-06T08:00:48",
    "incident_end": null,
    "received": "2026-08-06T13:26:48",
    "closed": "2026-08-11T07:42:44",
    "modified": "2026-08-11T07:42:44",
    "date_unknown": false,
    "site_name": "UPD - Petersburg Federal Correctional Complex - Broken Force Main",
    "address": "1060 RIVER ROAD",
    "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": "N",
    "low": 0,
    "high": 205000,
    "unit": "Gallons",
    "ssors": null,
    "nrc": [],
    "vdem": null,
    "epa": null,
    "facility_name": null,
    "facility_permitted": "N",
    "responsible_company": null,
    "still_occurring": "N"
  },
  "text": {
    "incident_comment": "Per follow-up for DEQ-PRO Water Compliance Inspector [name removed]:\n\n\"I just spoke with [name removed] (Safety Administrator) and [name removed] (Facilities Manager) at FCC Petersburg about this morning's sewage. According to [name removed], staff discovered a ruptured force main while investigating an area of ponded water at the site. Maintenance crews are currently working to determine the extent of the damage and repair the pipe. Staff confirmed the facility had the replacement parts needed and estimated the repair would be complete this evening. [name removed] confirmed that the release did not make it to state waters or the site's stormwater BMPs / MS4 outfalls.\n\n[name removed] noted that 66,000 gallons was the total amount of flow pumped from the facility's pump station to the sanitary sewer system between 0800-1200 and estimated that only a portion of this flow actually released. The facility had stopped flow to the damaged piping at the time of the call. \n\nTowards the end of the call, I discussed remediation / best practices (containment, disinfection) with both [name removed] and [name removed] and informed them of the summary / five day report requirement. I will file all correspondences related to this event in ECM / IR#324781.\"",
    "location_comment": "Prison in Hopewell",
    "closure_comment": null
  },
  "sewage": [
    {
      "duration_h": 4,
      "component": "Force Main",
      "component_id": 15,
      "volume_gal": 205000,
      "volume_unknown": null,
      "wet_weather": "N",
      "treated": "N",
      "precipitation_in": null,
      "causes": [
        "Broken Pipe"
      ],
      "impacts": [
        "Discharge to State Waters"
      ],
      "corrective_action": "Repaired forcemain",
      "steps_taken": null,
      "component_comment": null,
      "other_cause": null
    }
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      "at": "2026-08-06T13:26:49",
      "type": "Call Received"
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    {
      "at": "2026-08-07T05:59:25",
      "type": "Under Investigation"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-08-07T05:59:26",
      "type": "Assigned"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-08-11T07:42:44",
      "type": "Closed Call/IR"
    }
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  "created_in_prep": "2026-08-06T13:26:49",
  "event_type_basis": "DEQ category Sanitary Sewer Overflow",
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    "typed_permit": null,
    "deq_vpdes_links": null,
    "ms4": null,
    "ms4_links": [
      "WAT_MS4_GP: 633000000984",
      "CORE_FAC: Petersburg Federal Correctional Complex MS4"
    ],
    "basis": "none"
  },
  "discharger_match": {
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  },
  "volume_basis": "sewage report discharge volume (gallons)",
  "_ended_at_basis": "incident time + duration 4 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": null,
    "towns": [
      "Hopewell",
      "Hopewell City"
    ],
    "notes": null,
    "echo_outfall": null
  },
  "point": {
    "lat": 37.301125,
    "lon": -77.341061,
    "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": "2026-08-06T08:00:48-04:00",
    "edma_received": "2026-08-06T13:26:48-04:00"
  },
  "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/324781?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 324781, reported Aug 6, 2026, 1:26 PM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-03 02:40 UTC · Read the original notice

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