Sanitary sewer overflow (SSO) reported, Sep 2, 2026

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  "report": {
    "id": "325185",
    "via": "api",
    "incident": "2026-09-02T09:00:08",
    "incident_end": null,
    "received": "2026-09-02T14:57:52",
    "closed": "2026-09-15T10:10:59",
    "modified": "2026-09-15T10:10:59",
    "date_unknown": false,
    "site_name": "Private SSO - 3342 Virginia Beach Blvd - Virginia Beach",
    "address": "3341 Virginia Beach Blvd.",
    "city": "Virginia Beach",
    "zip": "23453",
    "county_city": "Virginia Beach City",
    "region": "Tidewater",
    "status_text": "Closed",
    "categories": [
      "Sanitary Sewer Overflow",
      "Risk Tier 2"
    ],
    "waterbody": null,
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    "water_threatened": "N",
    "low": null,
    "high": null,
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    "nrc": [],
    "vdem": null,
    "epa": null,
    "facility_name": null,
    "facility_permitted": "N",
    "responsible_company": null,
    "still_occurring": "N"
  },
  "text": {
    "incident_comment": "DEQ received a report stating, Sewer Spill from the lift station due to float failure. The spill size was approximately 250 gallons, the spill was contained to the parking lot. The spill area was cleaned with a vacuum truck. The lift station is now operational.",
    "location_comment": "Long John Silvers",
    "closure_comment": "Forrest Sewer Pump Service repaired private lift station and cleaned area using pump truck. No further action at this time."
  },
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    {
      "duration_h": null,
      "component": "Pump Station Failure",
      "component_id": 4,
      "volume_gal": 250,
      "volume_unknown": "N",
      "wet_weather": "N",
      "treated": "N",
      "precipitation_in": null,
      "causes": [
        "Pump Station"
      ],
      "impacts": [
        "Sewage on Land Surface with Potential Human Exposure"
      ],
      "corrective_action": "Float repaired.",
      "steps_taken": null,
      "component_comment": null,
      "other_cause": null
    }
  ],
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      "at": "2026-09-02T14:57:54",
      "type": "Call Received"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-09-03T08:45:53",
      "type": "Assigned"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-09-03T08:45:53",
      "type": "Under Investigation"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-09-15T10:10:59",
      "type": "Closed Call/IR"
    }
  ],
  "created_in_prep": "2026-09-02T14:57:54",
  "event_type_basis": "DEQ category Sanitary Sewer Overflow",
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    "basis": "none"
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    "by_name": null
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  "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": [
      "Virginia Beach",
      "Virginia Beach City"
    ],
    "notes": null,
    "echo_outfall": null
  },
  "point": {
    "lat": 36.841259,
    "lon": -76.088757,
    "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": "2026-09-02T09:00:08-04:00",
    "edma_received": "2026-09-02T14:57:52-04:00"
  },
  "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/325185?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 325185, reported Sep 2, 2026, 2:57 PM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-03 02:40 UTC · Read the original notice

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