Sanitary sewer overflow (SSO) reported, Sep 28, 2026

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{
  "report": {
    "id": "325677",
    "via": "api",
    "incident": "2026-09-28T08:30:00",
    "incident_end": null,
    "received": "2026-09-28T00:00:00",
    "closed": "2026-10-07T14:06:29",
    "modified": "2026-10-19T15:08:08",
    "date_unknown": false,
    "site_name": "UD-ACSA-Greenville WWTP-Stuarts Draft Hwy",
    "address": "43 Stuarts Draft Hwy",
    "city": "Greenville",
    "zip": null,
    "county_city": "Augusta County",
    "region": "Valley",
    "status_text": "Closed",
    "categories": [
      "Sanitary Sewer Overflow"
    ],
    "waterbody": "Christians Creek",
    "other_waterbody": null,
    "original_waterbody": "Christians Creek",
    "water_threatened": "Y",
    "low": 9800,
    "high": 9800,
    "unit": "Gallons",
    "ssors": null,
    "nrc": [],
    "vdem": null,
    "epa": null,
    "facility_name": "Greenville WWTP",
    "facility_permitted": "Y",
    "responsible_company": "Augusta County Service Authority",
    "still_occurring": "N"
  },
  "text": {
    "incident_comment": "Unusual discharge at plant when RAS compressor malfunctioned. Two temporary compressors were installed but unalbe to provide enough air. Sludge blanket in clarifier flipped causing solids loss. Approx 9800 gallons discharged and it reached Christians Creek.",
    "location_comment": "43 Stuarts Draft Hwy\nPlant 001 outfall.",
    "closure_comment": "See VA0090417."
  },
  "sewage": [
    {
      "duration_h": 3.5,
      "component": null,
      "component_id": null,
      "volume_gal": 9800,
      "volume_unknown": null,
      "wet_weather": "N",
      "treated": null,
      "precipitation_in": null,
      "causes": [
        "Other"
      ],
      "impacts": [
        "Discharge to State Waters"
      ],
      "corrective_action": "Operators turned off the plant's EQ pumps to minimize flow leaving the plant. Another temporary air compressor was installed and a 4th one brought on-site as backup. \nNew compressor motor has been ordered and Augusta Water plans to budget for a redundant air compressor in the next fiscal year.",
      "steps_taken": null,
      "component_comment": null,
      "other_cause": null
    }
  ],
  "status_log": [
    {
      "at": "2026-09-28T00:00:00",
      "type": "5-Day Letter"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-10-07T14:00:16",
      "type": "Call Received"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-10-07T14:01:25",
      "type": "Under Investigation"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-10-07T14:01:26",
      "type": "Assigned"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-10-07T14:06:29",
      "type": "Closed Call/IR"
    }
  ],
  "created_in_prep": "2026-10-07T14:00:16",
  "event_type_basis": "DEQ category Sanitary Sewer Overflow",
  "permit": {
    "typed_permit": "VA0090417",
    "deq_vpdes_links": [
      "VA0090417"
    ],
    "ms4": null,
    "ms4_links": null,
    "basis": "DEQ's VPDES link on the report"
  },
  "discharger_match": {
    "by_permit": null,
    "by_name": null
  },
  "volume_basis": "sewage report discharge volume (gallons)",
  "_ended_at_basis": "incident time + duration 3.5 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": "Christians Creek",
    "towns": [
      "Greenville",
      "Augusta County"
    ],
    "notes": null,
    "echo_outfall": null
  },
  "point": {
    "lat": 38.018749,
    "lon": -79.137975,
    "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": "2026-09-28T08:30:00-04:00",
    "edma_received": "2026-09-28T00:00:00-04:00"
  },
  "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/325677?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), Valley Regional Office via Virginia DEQ Pollution Response Program (PReP) pollution reports, sewage-related, record 325677, reported Sep 28, 2026, 12:00 AM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-03 02:40 UTC · Read the original notice

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