Report not fully read reported — Fairfax County DPWES Wastewater (Noman M. Cole Jr. Water Recycling Facility and collection system), Sep 3, 2026

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  "report": {
    "id": "325201",
    "via": "api",
    "incident": "2026-09-03T16:00:16",
    "incident_end": null,
    "received": "2026-09-03T17:41:34",
    "closed": "2026-09-15T15:34:32",
    "modified": "2026-10-01T10:49:01",
    "date_unknown": false,
    "site_name": "APW Spill - Noman Cole PCP (3rd Party)",
    "address": "9399 Richmond Hwy",
    "city": "Lorton",
    "zip": "22079",
    "county_city": "Fairfax County",
    "region": "Northern",
    "status_text": "Closed",
    "categories": [
      "Risk Tier Referred",
      "Unauthorized Discharge of Pollutant(s)"
    ],
    "waterbody": "Pohick Creek",
    "other_waterbody": null,
    "original_waterbody": null,
    "water_threatened": "Y",
    "low": 32000,
    "high": 32000,
    "unit": "Gallons",
    "ssors": null,
    "nrc": [],
    "vdem": null,
    "epa": null,
    "facility_name": "Noman M. Cole, Jr. Water Recycling Facility",
    "facility_permitted": "Y",
    "responsible_company": "Clark Construction",
    "still_occurring": "N"
  },
  "text": {
    "incident_comment": "Overflow of 32,000 gallons of advance plant water (APW) into Little Hogge Run and Pohick Creek due to construction error (plug in line was not installed correctly). Corrective acitons were taken and incident ceased.",
    "location_comment": "An area between secondary clarifier No. 6 and Building S at the Noman M. Cole, Jr. Water Recycling Facility",
    "closure_comment": "Incident ceased and five day report received."
  },
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      "component": "Other",
      "component_id": 7,
      "volume_gal": 32000,
      "volume_unknown": "N",
      "wet_weather": "N",
      "treated": "N",
      "precipitation_in": null,
      "causes": [
        "Broken Pipe"
      ],
      "impacts": [
        "Discharge to State Waters"
      ],
      "corrective_action": null,
      "steps_taken": null,
      "component_comment": "8\" APW line",
      "other_cause": null
    }
  ],
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    {
      "at": "2026-09-03T17:41:35",
      "type": "Call Received"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-09-04T09:25:45",
      "type": "Assigned"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-09-04T09:25:45",
      "type": "Under Investigation"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-09-04T09:26:05",
      "type": "Program Participant Assigned"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-09-04T09:26:13",
      "type": "Program Participant Assigned"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-09-08T00:00:00",
      "type": "5-Day Letter"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-09-15T00:00:00",
      "type": "Notification Sent"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-09-15T15:34:32",
      "type": "Closed Call/IR"
    }
  ],
  "created_in_prep": "2026-09-03T17:41:35",
  "event_type_basis": "DEQ category Risk Tier Referred, Unauthorized Discharge of Pollutant(s) is not a sewer-overflow category",
  "permit": {
    "typed_permit": "VAR051411",
    "deq_vpdes_links": null,
    "ms4": null,
    "ms4_links": null,
    "basis": "permit number on the original report"
  },
  "discharger_match": {
    "by_permit": null,
    "by_name": [
      "va-fairfax-dpwes"
    ],
    "result": "by operator name in the report"
  },
  "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": "Pohick Creek",
    "towns": [
      "Lorton",
      "Fairfax County"
    ],
    "notes": null,
    "echo_outfall": null
  },
  "point": {
    "lat": 38.701797,
    "lon": -77.204858,
    "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": "2026-09-03T16:00:16-04:00",
    "edma_received": "2026-09-03T17:41:34-04:00"
  },
  "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/325201?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), Northern Regional Office via Virginia DEQ Pollution Response Program (PReP) pollution reports, sewage-related, record 325201, reported Sep 3, 2026, 5:41 PM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-03 02:40 UTC · Read the original notice

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