Treatment bypass reported — Henrico County Department of Public Utilities (Henrico Water Reclamation Facility and collection system), Sep 10, 2026

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{
  "report": {
    "id": "325291",
    "via": "api",
    "incident": "2026-09-10T15:18:00",
    "incident_end": null,
    "received": "2026-09-10T16:57:00",
    "closed": "2026-09-14T07:47:33",
    "modified": "2026-09-14T07:47:33",
    "date_unknown": false,
    "site_name": "UPD/UAD - Henrico County Water Reclamation Facility - Faulty Valve on 4-inch non-potable water line",
    "address": "9101 WRVA Road",
    "city": "Henrico",
    "zip": "23231",
    "county_city": "Henrico County",
    "region": "Piedmont",
    "status_text": "Closed",
    "categories": [
      "Unauthorized Discharge of Pollutant(s)"
    ],
    "waterbody": "James River",
    "other_waterbody": "We estimate ~2800 gallons was released with less than 1,000 gallons going to nearby stormwater drop inlet. The remaining 1,800 gallons went to soil and secondary containment that is directed to our return flow pump station, and subsequently the head of the plant.",
    "original_waterbody": "James River",
    "water_threatened": "Y",
    "low": 0,
    "high": 1000,
    "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": "All pertinent information contained in initial notification.",
    "location_comment": "There was a recent joint repair on a 4” non-potable water line that was observed to be leaking at 15:20.",
    "closure_comment": null
  },
  "sewage": [
    {
      "duration_h": 0.1,
      "component": "Other",
      "component_id": 7,
      "volume_gal": 2800,
      "volume_unknown": null,
      "wet_weather": "N",
      "treated": "N",
      "precipitation_in": null,
      "causes": [
        "Other"
      ],
      "impacts": [
        "Sewage on Land Surface with Potential Human Exposure",
        "Discharge to State Waters"
      ],
      "corrective_action": "Operators immediately shut off the valve and deployed spill mats from nearby spill material kit to prevent further migration into stormwater inlet that leads to SWO #2.",
      "steps_taken": null,
      "component_comment": "Recently repaired 4-inch joint",
      "other_cause": null
    }
  ],
  "status_log": [
    {
      "at": "2026-09-14T07:33:03",
      "type": "Call Received"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-09-14T07:47:21",
      "type": "Under Investigation"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-09-14T07:47:22",
      "type": "Assigned"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-09-14T07:47:33",
      "type": "Closed Call/IR"
    }
  ],
  "created_in_prep": "2026-09-14T07:33:03",
  "event_type_basis": "treatment-plant discharge not filed as a sanitary sewer overflow (category: Unauthorized Discharge of Pollutant(s))",
  "permit": {
    "typed_permit": "VA0063690",
    "deq_vpdes_links": [
      "VA0063690"
    ],
    "ms4": null,
    "ms4_links": null,
    "basis": "DEQ's VPDES link on the report"
  },
  "discharger_match": {
    "by_permit": "va-henrico-dpu",
    "by_name": [
      "va-henrico-dpu"
    ],
    "result": "by permit"
  },
  "volume_basis": "sewage report discharge volume (gallons)",
  "_ended_at_basis": "incident time + duration 0.1 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": "James River; We estimate ~2800 gallons was released with less than 1,000 gallons going to nearby stormwater drop inlet. The remaining 1,800 gallons went to soil and secondary containment that is directed to our return flow pump station, and subsequently the head of the plant.",
    "towns": [
      "Henrico",
      "Henrico County"
    ],
    "notes": null,
    "echo_outfall": null
  },
  "point": {
    "lat": 37.415215,
    "lon": -77.322248,
    "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": "2026-09-10T15:18:00-04:00",
    "edma_received": "2026-09-10T16:57:00-04:00"
  },
  "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/325291?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 325291, reported Sep 10, 2026, 4:57 PM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-03 02:40 UTC · Read the original notice

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