Treatment bypass reported — Hampton Roads Sanitation District (HRSD), Oct 12, 2026

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  "report": {
    "id": "325728",
    "via": "api",
    "incident": "2026-10-12T08:30:20",
    "incident_end": null,
    "received": "2026-10-12T11:14:08",
    "closed": "2026-10-16T10:09:53",
    "modified": "2026-10-16T10:09:53",
    "date_unknown": false,
    "site_name": "Sewage Release - Sunset Bay WWTP - Chincoteauge",
    "address": "6321 Captains Lane",
    "city": "Chincoteague",
    "zip": "23336",
    "county_city": "Accomack County",
    "region": "Tidewater",
    "status_text": "Closed",
    "categories": [
      "Unauthorized Discharge of Pollutant(s)",
      "Risk Tier 2"
    ],
    "waterbody": null,
    "other_waterbody": null,
    "original_waterbody": null,
    "water_threatened": "N",
    "low": null,
    "high": null,
    "unit": null,
    "ssors": null,
    "nrc": [],
    "vdem": null,
    "epa": null,
    "facility_name": "Sunset Bay WWTP",
    "facility_permitted": "Y",
    "responsible_company": "HRSD",
    "still_occurring": "N"
  },
  "text": {
    "incident_comment": "Unauthorized discharge of influent sewage.Influent lift station emergency bypass pump's discharge hose vibrated out of the equalization tank and discharged influent wastewater onto the ground. Estimating around [phone removed] gallons of influent wastewater spilled onto the ground.  Bypass pump's air release line discharged 50-100 gallons of wastewater onto the ground surrounding the influent lift station.\n\n10/13/26 - Spoke to ESS. Hose was not properly secured from emergency backup pump. may have impacted storm drain cleaned up and limed. 5-day letter pending.\n\n10/15/26 - 5-day letter received. Closed",
    "location_comment": "Sunset Bay WWTP",
    "closure_comment": null
  },
  "sewage": [
    {
      "duration_h": 2,
      "component": "Pump Station",
      "component_id": 11,
      "volume_gal": 1100,
      "volume_unknown": null,
      "wet_weather": "N",
      "treated": "N",
      "precipitation_in": 0,
      "causes": [
        "Other"
      ],
      "impacts": [
        "Discharge to State Waters"
      ],
      "corrective_action": "Hose not properly secured. Operator estimates [phone removed] gallons to ground. May have hit storm sewer. Cleanup conducted, lime used in all impacted areas.\n\n5-day letter provided.",
      "steps_taken": null,
      "component_comment": null,
      "other_cause": null
    }
  ],
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    {
      "at": "2026-10-12T11:14:10",
      "type": "Call Received"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-10-13T00:00:00",
      "type": "Phone Call"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-10-13T11:12:12",
      "type": "Assigned"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-10-13T11:12:12",
      "type": "Under Investigation"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-10-16T00:00:00",
      "type": "5-Day Letter"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-10-16T10:09:53",
      "type": "Closed Call/IR"
    }
  ],
  "created_in_prep": "2026-10-12T11:14:10",
  "event_type_basis": "treatment-plant discharge not filed as a sanitary sewer overflow (category: Unauthorized Discharge of Pollutant(s), Risk Tier 2)",
  "permit": {
    "typed_permit": "VA0054003",
    "deq_vpdes_links": [
      "VA0054003"
    ],
    "ms4": null,
    "ms4_links": null,
    "basis": "DEQ's VPDES link on the report"
  },
  "discharger_match": {
    "by_permit": null,
    "by_name": [
      "va-hrsd"
    ],
    "result": "by operator name in the report"
  },
  "volume_basis": "sewage report discharge volume (gallons)",
  "_ended_at_basis": "incident time + duration 2 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": null,
    "towns": [
      "Chincoteague",
      "Accomack County"
    ],
    "notes": null,
    "echo_outfall": null
  },
  "point": {
    "lat": 37.931614,
    "lon": -75.381594,
    "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": "2026-10-12T08:30:20-04:00",
    "edma_received": "2026-10-12T11:14:08-04:00"
  },
  "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/325728?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 325728, reported Oct 12, 2026, 11:14 AM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-03 02:40 UTC · Read the original notice

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