Treatment bypass reported, Aug 13, 2026

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{
  "report": {
    "id": "324954",
    "via": "api",
    "incident": "2026-08-13T08:30:00",
    "incident_end": null,
    "received": "2026-08-14T16:42:00",
    "closed": "2026-08-19T08:34:09",
    "modified": "2026-08-19T08:34:09",
    "date_unknown": false,
    "site_name": "Unauthorized Discharge - Town of Clintwood - Clintwood WWTP",
    "address": "244 The Lake Rd.",
    "city": "Clintwood",
    "zip": "24228",
    "county_city": "Dickenson County",
    "region": "Southwest",
    "status_text": "Closed",
    "categories": [
      "Unauthorized Discharge of Pollutant(s)"
    ],
    "waterbody": "Cranes Nest River",
    "other_waterbody": null,
    "original_waterbody": "Cranes Nest River",
    "water_threatened": "Y",
    "low": 1,
    "high": 100100,
    "unit": "Gallons",
    "ssors": null,
    "nrc": [],
    "vdem": null,
    "epa": null,
    "facility_name": "Clintwood WWTP",
    "facility_permitted": "Y",
    "responsible_company": "Town of Clintwood",
    "still_occurring": "N"
  },
  "text": {
    "incident_comment": "On August 14, 2026, [name removed], Operator at the Clintwood WWTP, provided email notification and written report noting that on August 13, 2026, an upset occurred at the WWTP and solids left the effluent to the Cranes Nest River at a total of .1001MGD. The discharge occurred between 8:30am and 1:30pm. Flash flooding was the cause.  Despite shutting off aeration and increasing RAS rates ahead of time, the plant was hydraulically overloaded as the flow disturbed the settled solids and carried it through the facility.  Effluent flows hit a 1.77 MGD rate with design capacity only being .495MGD.  August 14, 2026, the flow remained elevated but had greatly improved. Aeration remained off for the majority of the day but has since resumed and no additional upset occurred. The incident was closed on August 19, 2026.",
    "location_comment": "244 The Lake Rd., Clintwood, VA",
    "closure_comment": "The overflow stopped on August 13, 2026, and the 5-day written report was provided via email on August 14, 2026, should further action be needed it will be taken by DEQ SWRO Water Compliance section staff"
  },
  "sewage": [
    {
      "duration_h": 5,
      "component": "Other",
      "component_id": 7,
      "volume_gal": 100100,
      "volume_unknown": "N",
      "wet_weather": "Y",
      "treated": "N",
      "precipitation_in": null,
      "causes": [
        "High Levels of Inflow and/or Infiltration"
      ],
      "impacts": [
        "Discharge to State Waters"
      ],
      "corrective_action": "WWTP put into high flow SOP. Aeration remained off for the majority of the day but has since resumed and no additional upset occurred",
      "steps_taken": null,
      "component_comment": "Outfall",
      "other_cause": null
    }
  ],
  "status_log": [
    {
      "at": "2026-08-14T00:00:00",
      "type": "5-Day Letter"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-08-18T14:11:10",
      "type": "Call Received"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-08-18T14:12:18",
      "type": "Assigned"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-08-18T14:12:18",
      "type": "Under Investigation"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-08-19T08:34:09",
      "type": "Closed Call/IR"
    }
  ],
  "created_in_prep": "2026-08-18T14:11:10",
  "event_type_basis": "treatment-plant discharge not filed as a sanitary sewer overflow (category: Unauthorized Discharge of Pollutant(s))",
  "permit": {
    "typed_permit": "VA0026565",
    "deq_vpdes_links": [
      "VA0026565"
    ],
    "ms4": null,
    "ms4_links": null,
    "basis": "DEQ's VPDES link on the report"
  },
  "discharger_match": {
    "by_permit": null,
    "by_name": null
  },
  "volume_basis": "sewage report discharge volume (gallons)",
  "_ended_at_basis": "incident time + duration 5 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": "Cranes Nest River",
    "towns": [
      "Clintwood",
      "Dickenson County"
    ],
    "notes": null,
    "echo_outfall": null
  },
  "point": {
    "lat": 37.155869,
    "lon": -82.444443,
    "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": "2026-08-13T08:30:00-04:00",
    "edma_received": "2026-08-14T16:42:00-04:00"
  },
  "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/324954?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), Southwest Regional Office via Virginia DEQ Pollution Response Program (PReP) pollution reports, sewage-related, record 324954, reported Aug 14, 2026, 4:42 PM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-03 02:40 UTC · Read the original notice

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