Report not fully read reported — Hampton Roads Sanitation District (HRSD), Aug 25, 2026

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{
  "report": {
    "id": "325063",
    "via": "api",
    "incident": "2026-08-25T12:00:51",
    "incident_end": null,
    "received": "2026-08-26T10:12:16",
    "closed": "2026-09-23T12:00:29",
    "modified": "2026-09-23T12:00:29",
    "date_unknown": false,
    "site_name": "Solids Release - 300 Ron Springs Rd - Williamsburg",
    "address": "300 Ron Springs Road",
    "city": "Williamsburg",
    "zip": "23185",
    "county_city": "Williamsburg City",
    "region": "Tidewater",
    "status_text": "Closed",
    "categories": [
      "Risk Tier 2",
      "Unauthorized Discharge of Pollutant(s)"
    ],
    "waterbody": null,
    "other_waterbody": null,
    "original_waterbody": null,
    "water_threatened": "Y",
    "low": null,
    "high": null,
    "unit": null,
    "ssors": null,
    "nrc": [],
    "vdem": null,
    "epa": null,
    "facility_name": "HRSD Williamsburg STP",
    "facility_permitted": "Y",
    "responsible_company": null,
    "still_occurring": "N"
  },
  "text": {
    "incident_comment": "HRSD report the following to DEQ, \"While discharging the Solids Handling Sludge holding tank, the manhole drain became blocked, causing sludge to rise out of the manhole and onto the street, flowing to a nearby storm drain. Sludge traveled through the storm drains to outfall #11, filling a portion of the outfall ditch.\"",
    "location_comment": "HRSD Williamsburg STP",
    "closure_comment": "HRSD indicated they recovered all the material.  Five day letter received."
  },
  "sewage": [
    {
      "duration_h": null,
      "component": "Other",
      "component_id": 7,
      "volume_gal": 5870,
      "volume_unknown": null,
      "wet_weather": "N",
      "treated": null,
      "precipitation_in": null,
      "causes": [
        "Blockage"
      ],
      "impacts": [
        "Discharge to State Waters"
      ],
      "corrective_action": "Contactors scheduled to clean up release. 4370 gallons recovered at time of report.",
      "steps_taken": null,
      "component_comment": "Solids Holding Tank",
      "other_cause": null
    }
  ],
  "status_log": [
    {
      "at": "2026-08-26T10:12:17",
      "type": "Call Received"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-08-27T09:20:48",
      "type": "Assigned"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-08-27T09:20:48",
      "type": "Under Investigation"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-09-23T12:00:30",
      "type": "Closed Call/IR"
    }
  ],
  "created_in_prep": "2026-08-26T10:12:17",
  "event_type_basis": "DEQ category Risk Tier 2, Unauthorized Discharge of Pollutant(s) is not a sewer-overflow category",
  "permit": {
    "typed_permit": "VA0081302",
    "deq_vpdes_links": [
      "VA0081302"
    ],
    "ms4": null,
    "ms4_links": null,
    "basis": "DEQ's VPDES link on the report"
  },
  "discharger_match": {
    "by_permit": "va-hrsd",
    "by_name": [
      "va-hrsd"
    ],
    "result": "by permit"
  },
  "volume_basis": "sewage report discharge volume (gallons)",
  "_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": [
      "Williamsburg",
      "Williamsburg City"
    ],
    "notes": null,
    "echo_outfall": null
  },
  "point": {
    "lat": 37.215301,
    "lon": -76.635949,
    "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": "2026-08-25T12:00:51-04:00",
    "edma_received": "2026-08-26T10:12:16-04:00"
  },
  "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/325063?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), Tidewater Regional Office via Virginia DEQ Pollution Response Program (PReP) pollution reports, sewage-related, record 325063, reported Aug 26, 2026, 10:12 AM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-03 02:40 UTC · Read the original notice

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