Sanitary sewer overflow (SSO) reported, Aug 17, 2026

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  "report": {
    "id": "324948",
    "via": "api",
    "incident": "2026-08-17T12:00:00",
    "incident_end": null,
    "received": "2026-08-18T10:31:00",
    "closed": "2026-08-25T06:14:25",
    "modified": "2026-08-25T06:14:25",
    "date_unknown": false,
    "site_name": "SSO (possible) - Mylar Specialty Films - Hopewell - onsite WWTP",
    "address": "3600 Discovery Drive",
    "city": "Chester",
    "zip": "23836",
    "county_city": "Chesterfield County",
    "region": "Piedmont",
    "status_text": "Closed",
    "categories": [
      "Sanitary Sewer Overflow"
    ],
    "waterbody": null,
    "other_waterbody": null,
    "original_waterbody": null,
    "water_threatened": "N",
    "low": null,
    "high": null,
    "unit": null,
    "ssors": null,
    "nrc": [],
    "vdem": null,
    "epa": null,
    "facility_name": null,
    "facility_permitted": "Y",
    "responsible_company": null,
    "still_occurring": "N"
  },
  "text": {
    "incident_comment": "Overnight August 16 – 17, 2026, the Mylar Hopewell Plant received almost 4” of rain. On August 17, around 12:00pm, a wastewater treatment plant operator reported a potential overflow of the sanitary plant due to the rain. While we did not observe an overflow, we did see water on the ground, and we are treating it as if an overflow occurred.  An industrial waste contractor has already removed and properly disposed the potential soil affected. The potential overflow did not appear to reach the adjacent waterway and appeared to have only impacted the soil immediately adjacent to the sanitary plant.  The potential discharge would have flowed back into the collection system and routed back to the sanitary plant. \n \nWe had identified a hole in the sanitary system, and have had it repaired by a local contractor. We were never able to definitively prove that on actual overflow did occur but as stated in the initial report we still treated as such. The volume and length of time could not be identified since it was never observed overflowing.",
    "location_comment": "potential overflow of the sanitary plant due to the rain",
    "closure_comment": null
  },
  "sewage": [
    {
      "duration_h": null,
      "component": "Pump Station",
      "component_id": 11,
      "volume_gal": null,
      "volume_unknown": "Y",
      "wet_weather": "Y",
      "treated": "N",
      "precipitation_in": 4,
      "causes": [
        "Other"
      ],
      "impacts": [
        "Sewage on Land Surface with Potential Human Exposure"
      ],
      "corrective_action": "The potential discharge would have flowed back into the collection system and routed back to the sanitary plant.",
      "steps_taken": null,
      "component_comment": null,
      "other_cause": null
    }
  ],
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      "at": "2026-08-18T12:04:46",
      "type": "Call Received"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-08-18T12:11:06",
      "type": "Under Investigation"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-08-18T12:11:06",
      "type": "Assigned"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-08-25T06:14:25",
      "type": "Closed Call/IR"
    }
  ],
  "created_in_prep": "2026-08-18T12:04:46",
  "event_type_basis": "DEQ category Sanitary Sewer Overflow",
  "permit": {
    "typed_permit": "VA0003077",
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      "VA0003077"
    ],
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    "basis": "DEQ's VPDES link on the report"
  },
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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": {
    "text": null,
    "towns": [
      "Chester",
      "Chesterfield County"
    ],
    "notes": null,
    "echo_outfall": null
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  "point": {
    "lat": 37.350347,
    "lon": -77.291325,
    "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": "2026-08-17T12:00:00-04:00",
    "edma_received": "2026-08-18T10:31:00-04:00"
  },
  "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/324948?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 324948, reported Aug 18, 2026, 10:31 AM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-03 02:40 UTC · Read the original notice

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