Sanitary sewer overflow (SSO) reported — Henrico County Department of Public Utilities (Henrico Water Reclamation Facility and collection system), Sep 2, 2026

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  "report": {
    "id": "325232",
    "via": "api",
    "incident": "2026-09-02T21:15:00",
    "incident_end": null,
    "received": "2026-09-03T14:24:00",
    "closed": "2026-09-08T06:40:15",
    "modified": "2026-09-08T06:40:15",
    "date_unknown": false,
    "site_name": "SSO - Henrico Conveyance - Broken Sewer Line at 1606 Glenside Drive",
    "address": "1606 Glenside Drive",
    "city": "Richmond",
    "zip": "23226",
    "county_city": "Richmond City",
    "region": "Piedmont",
    "status_text": "Closed",
    "categories": [
      "Sanitary Sewer Overflow"
    ],
    "waterbody": "Upham Brook",
    "other_waterbody": null,
    "original_waterbody": "Upham Brook",
    "water_threatened": "Y",
    "low": 0,
    "high": 3975,
    "unit": "Gallons",
    "ssors": null,
    "nrc": [],
    "vdem": null,
    "epa": null,
    "facility_name": "Henrico County Water Reclamation Facility",
    "facility_permitted": "Y",
    "responsible_company": null,
    "still_occurring": "N"
  },
  "text": {
    "incident_comment": "A sewage spill occurred from a pipe segment between SMH101NE019 and SMH101NE012 in the road in front of 1606 Glenside Drive on September 2, 2026. The spill resulted from a collapsed pipe causing a sinkhole on the right southbound land of Glenside Drive. The spill entered the storm system which could possibly discharged to Upham Branch.\n\nWe noticed the the spill on September 2, 2026, at approximately 9:15 PM.  County Staff vacuum out the sewer on September 3, 2026, at approximately 10:30 AM, and the overflow ceased.  The estimated volume of discharge is approximately 3,975 gallons.  The area affected has been cleaned up, and no adverse effects from the spill have been observed.",
    "location_comment": "Address: 1606 Glenside Drive\nCounty/City: Henrico County, VA\nZip: 23231\nNote Google search indicated address as:  1606 Glenside Dr, Richmond, VA 23226",
    "closure_comment": null
  },
  "sewage": [
    {
      "duration_h": 13.25,
      "component": "Pipe Failure",
      "component_id": 3,
      "volume_gal": 3975,
      "volume_unknown": null,
      "wet_weather": "N",
      "treated": "N",
      "precipitation_in": null,
      "causes": [
        "Broken Pipe"
      ],
      "impacts": [
        "Discharge to State Waters"
      ],
      "corrective_action": "Repaired sewer pipe.",
      "steps_taken": null,
      "component_comment": null,
      "other_cause": null
    }
  ],
  "status_log": [
    {
      "at": "2026-09-08T05:40:23",
      "type": "Call Received"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-09-08T05:45:01",
      "type": "Under Investigation"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-09-08T05:45:02",
      "type": "Assigned"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-09-08T06:40:15",
      "type": "Closed Call/IR"
    }
  ],
  "created_in_prep": "2026-09-08T05:40:23",
  "event_type_basis": "DEQ category Sanitary Sewer Overflow",
  "permit": {
    "typed_permit": "VA0063690",
    "deq_vpdes_links": [
      "VA0063690"
    ],
    "ms4": null,
    "ms4_links": null,
    "basis": "DEQ's VPDES link on the report"
  },
  "discharger_match": {
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      "va-henrico-dpu"
    ],
    "result": "by permit"
  },
  "volume_basis": "sewage report discharge volume (gallons)",
  "_ended_at_basis": "incident time + duration 13.25 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": "Upham Brook",
    "towns": [
      "Richmond",
      "Richmond City"
    ],
    "notes": null,
    "echo_outfall": null
  },
  "point": {
    "lat": 37.602376,
    "lon": -77.528266,
    "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": "2026-09-02T21:15:00-04:00",
    "edma_received": "2026-09-03T14:24:00-04:00"
  },
  "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/325232?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), Piedmont Regional Office via Virginia DEQ Pollution Response Program (PReP) pollution reports, sewage-related, record 325232, reported Sep 3, 2026, 2:24 PM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-03 02:40 UTC · Read the original notice

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