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

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  "report": {
    "id": "324963",
    "via": "api",
    "incident": "2026-08-17T17:28:00",
    "incident_end": null,
    "received": "2026-08-17T20:48:00",
    "closed": "2026-08-19T09:23:34",
    "modified": "2026-08-19T09:23:34",
    "date_unknown": false,
    "site_name": "SSO - Town of Abingdon - Wolf Creek WRF - Watuaga Pump Station Manhole",
    "address": "17366 Jeb Stuart Highway",
    "city": "Abingdon",
    "zip": "24211",
    "county_city": "Washington County",
    "region": "Southwest",
    "status_text": "Closed",
    "categories": [
      "Sanitary Sewer Overflow"
    ],
    "waterbody": "Fifteenmile Creek",
    "other_waterbody": null,
    "original_waterbody": "Fifteenmile Creek",
    "water_threatened": "Y",
    "low": 1,
    "high": 2000,
    "unit": "Gallons",
    "ssors": null,
    "nrc": [],
    "vdem": null,
    "epa": null,
    "facility_name": "Wolf Creek Water Reclamation Facility",
    "facility_permitted": "Y",
    "responsible_company": "Abingdon Town",
    "still_occurring": "N"
  },
  "text": {
    "incident_comment": "On August 17, 2026, [name removed] with Woodard and Curran, the contract operators for the Wolf Creek Water Reclamation Facility, provided email notification and written report noting that there was an overflow at their Watauga Pump Station. The manhole started overflowing at approximately 5:28pm on August 17th due to a lose of power to the pumps because of a blown fuse in the control panel. Repairs were made and the manhole stopped overflowing at 6:30pm on August 17th. The estimated amount of the overflow was 2,000 gallons. The overflow did reach the adjacent stream. The incident was closed on August 19, 2026.",
    "location_comment": "Route 58 at Watauga Trail Circle",
    "closure_comment": "The overflow stopped on August 17, 2026, and the 5-day written report was provided via email on August 17, 2026, should further action be needed it will be taken by DEQ SWRO Water Compliance section staff"
  },
  "sewage": [
    {
      "duration_h": 1,
      "component": "Manhole",
      "component_id": 1,
      "volume_gal": 2000,
      "volume_unknown": "N",
      "wet_weather": "N",
      "treated": "N",
      "precipitation_in": null,
      "causes": [
        "Pump Station"
      ],
      "impacts": [
        "Discharge to State Waters"
      ],
      "corrective_action": "Electrical repairs were made and the pumps returned to normal operation.",
      "steps_taken": null,
      "component_comment": null,
      "other_cause": null
    }
  ],
  "status_log": [
    {
      "at": "2026-08-17T00:00:00",
      "type": "5-Day Letter"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-08-19T09:13:10",
      "type": "Call Received"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-08-19T09:13:22",
      "type": "Under Investigation"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-08-19T09:13:23",
      "type": "Assigned"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-08-19T09:23:34",
      "type": "Closed Call/IR"
    }
  ],
  "created_in_prep": "2026-08-19T09:13:10",
  "event_type_basis": "DEQ category Sanitary Sewer Overflow",
  "permit": {
    "typed_permit": "VA0026531",
    "deq_vpdes_links": [
      "VA0026531"
    ],
    "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 1 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": "Fifteenmile Creek",
    "towns": [
      "Abingdon",
      "Washington County"
    ],
    "notes": null,
    "echo_outfall": null
  },
  "point": {
    "lat": 36.701036,
    "lon": -81.915981,
    "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": "2026-08-17T17:28:00-04:00",
    "edma_received": "2026-08-17T20:48:00-04:00"
  },
  "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/324963?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 324963, reported Aug 17, 2026, 8:48 PM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-03 02:40 UTC · Read the original notice

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