Sanitary sewer overflow (SSO) reported — City of Norfolk Department of Utilities (collection system)

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{
  "report": {
    "id": "325485",
    "via": "api",
    "incident": "2026-09-23T08:54:27",
    "incident_end": null,
    "received": "2026-09-23T11:03:50",
    "closed": "2026-10-27T09:21:45",
    "modified": "2026-10-27T09:21:45",
    "date_unknown": true,
    "site_name": "Suspected SSO - 5442 Bayberry Dr - Norfolk",
    "address": "5442 Bayberry Drive",
    "city": "Norfolk",
    "zip": "23502",
    "county_city": "Norfolk City",
    "region": "Tidewater",
    "status_text": "Closed",
    "categories": [
      "Risk Tier 2",
      "Sanitary Sewer Overflow"
    ],
    "waterbody": "Meadow Lake",
    "other_waterbody": null,
    "original_waterbody": null,
    "water_threatened": "Y",
    "low": null,
    "high": null,
    "unit": null,
    "ssors": null,
    "nrc": [
      "1474355"
    ],
    "vdem": "VDEM-2026-09-23-0119",
    "epa": null,
    "facility_name": null,
    "facility_permitted": "N",
    "responsible_company": "City of Norfolk Utilities",
    "still_occurring": "N"
  },
  "text": {
    "incident_comment": "DEQ received a report stating, City staff was notified from our contractor doing work on Meadow Lake, that there was an illicit discharge of black water. Storm water staff has conducted detergent testing and is continuing to trace the lines. The black water is a sanitary sewer overflow. Utilities has been notified and Storm Water staff continues to trace the lines to find the origin. Meadow Lake leads to the Elizabeth River.\n\nCity inspectors performed source investigation and no source was able to be determined. City utilities and HRSD confirmed no active overflows or surcharges.",
    "location_comment": "Meadow Lake",
    "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": "City notified. No source was able to be determined.",
      "steps_taken": null,
      "component_comment": "Storm water system",
      "other_cause": null
    }
  ],
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      "at": "2026-09-23T11:03:51",
      "type": "Call Received"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-09-23T13:53:24",
      "type": "Under Investigation"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-09-23T13:53:25",
      "type": "Assigned"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-10-27T09:21:45",
      "type": "Closed Call/IR"
    }
  ],
  "created_in_prep": "2026-09-23T11:03:51",
  "event_type_basis": "DEQ category Sanitary Sewer Overflow",
  "permit": {
    "typed_permit": "VA0088650",
    "deq_vpdes_links": null,
    "ms4_links": null,
    "basis": "typed permit is an MS4 permit: not used as the VPDES permit"
  },
  "discharger_match": {
    "by_permit": null,
    "by_name": [
      "va-norfolk-utilities"
    ],
    "result": "by operator name in the report"
  },
  "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": "Meadow Lake",
    "towns": [
      "Norfolk",
      "Norfolk City"
    ],
    "notes": null,
    "echo_outfall": null
  },
  "point": {
    "lat": 36.850031,
    "lon": -76.221436,
    "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": "2026-09-23T08:54:27-04:00",
    "edma_received": "2026-09-23T11:03:50-04:00"
  },
  "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/325485?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 325485, reported Sep 23, 2026, 11:03 AM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-03 02:40 UTC · Read the original notice

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