Sanitary sewer overflow (SSO) reported

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{
  "report": {
    "id": "325475",
    "via": "api",
    "incident": "2026-09-22T10:32:24",
    "incident_end": null,
    "received": "2026-09-23T08:42:24",
    "closed": "2026-10-07T09:08:52",
    "modified": "2026-10-07T09:08:52",
    "date_unknown": true,
    "site_name": "SSO - 1850 E Brambleton Ave - Norfolk",
    "address": "1850 E Brambleton Ave",
    "city": "Norfolk",
    "zip": "23504",
    "county_city": "Norfolk City",
    "region": "Tidewater",
    "status_text": "Closed",
    "categories": [
      "Risk Tier 2",
      "Sanitary Sewer Overflow",
      "MS4 Related"
    ],
    "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": "Norfolk State University",
    "facility_permitted": "Y",
    "responsible_company": "Norfolk State University",
    "still_occurring": "N"
  },
  "text": {
    "incident_comment": "DEQ received a report stating, City Storm Water staff was looking at the sluce gate located in at Ohio Creek and in the vicinity of the Norfolk State University softball field (1850 E Brambleton Ave) when they noticed a sewage discharge coming from the NSU property. Storm water does not have any infrastructure in the immediate area, but any discharges will enter through our system to move out into the Elizabeth River.\n\nCity Storm Water staff notified NSU personnel of the issue to investigate and have requested a follow up. City of Norfolk Utilities was notified as well and investigated, but there is not Utilities' infrastructure in the area.\n\n5 Day Letter received from NSU MS4 staff. Source was identified to be from a recreational vehicle that dumped their black water tank into storm water system.",
    "location_comment": "Nearest address is 1850 E Brambleton Ave (Softball fields)",
    "closure_comment": "5 Day Letter received. No further action at this time."
  },
  "sewage": [
    {
      "duration_h": null,
      "component": "Other",
      "component_id": 7,
      "volume_gal": null,
      "volume_unknown": "Y",
      "wet_weather": "N",
      "treated": "N",
      "precipitation_in": null,
      "causes": [
        "Other"
      ],
      "impacts": [
        "Discharge to State Waters"
      ],
      "corrective_action": "NSU pumped out storm water system to remove sewer water",
      "steps_taken": null,
      "component_comment": "Recreational Vehicle",
      "other_cause": null
    }
  ],
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    {
      "at": "2026-09-23T08:42:32",
      "type": "Call Received"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-09-23T09:32:59",
      "type": "Under Investigation"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-09-23T09:32:59",
      "type": "Assigned"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-10-07T09:08:52",
      "type": "Closed Call/IR"
    }
  ],
  "created_in_prep": "2026-09-23T08:42:32",
  "event_type_basis": "DEQ category Sanitary Sewer Overflow",
  "permit": {
    "typed_permit": "VA0088650",
    "deq_vpdes_links": null,
    "ms4_links": [
      "WAT_MS4_GP: 633000000961",
      "CORE_FAC: Norfolk State University MS4"
    ],
    "basis": "typed permit is an MS4 permit: not used as the VPDES permit"
  },
  "discharger_match": {
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    "by_name": null
  },
  "volume_basis": null,
  "_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": [
      "Norfolk",
      "Norfolk City"
    ],
    "notes": null,
    "echo_outfall": null
  },
  "point": {
    "lat": 36.846076,
    "lon": -76.264926,
    "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": "2026-09-22T10:32:24-04:00",
    "edma_received": "2026-09-23T08:42:24-04:00"
  },
  "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/325475?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 325475, reported Sep 23, 2026, 8:42 AM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-03 02:40 UTC · Read the original notice

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