Treatment bypass reported — City of Covington Wastewater Treatment Plant, Oct 11, 2026

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  "report": {
    "id": "325732",
    "via": "api",
    "incident": "2026-10-11T16:15:00",
    "incident_end": null,
    "received": "2026-10-12T12:09:00",
    "closed": "2026-10-15T12:24:44",
    "modified": "2026-10-15T12:24:44",
    "date_unknown": false,
    "site_name": "Bypass - City of Covington WWTP - EQ Tank",
    "address": "711 West Park Street",
    "city": "Covington",
    "zip": "24426",
    "county_city": "Covington City",
    "region": "Blue Ridge",
    "status_text": "Closed",
    "categories": [
      "Sanitary Sewer Overflow",
      "Risk Tier Referred"
    ],
    "waterbody": "Jackson River",
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    "original_waterbody": "Jackson River",
    "water_threatened": "Y",
    "low": 62000,
    "high": 62000,
    "unit": "Gallons",
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    "nrc": [],
    "vdem": null,
    "epa": null,
    "facility_name": "Covington City - Wastewater Treatment Plant",
    "facility_permitted": "Y",
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    "still_occurring": "N"
  },
  "text": {
    "incident_comment": "Bypass - City of Covington WWTP - EQ tank overflow.\n\n5 Day Letter received.",
    "location_comment": "At the WWTP.",
    "closure_comment": "Permitted - 5 Day Letter received."
  },
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    {
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      "component_id": 13,
      "volume_gal": 62000,
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      "wet_weather": "Y",
      "treated": "N",
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        "High Levels of Inflow and/or Infiltration"
      ],
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        "Discharge to State Waters"
      ],
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      "steps_taken": null,
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      "other_cause": null
    }
  ],
  "status_log": [
    {
      "at": "2026-10-12T12:30:48",
      "type": "Call Received"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-10-12T12:36:17",
      "type": "Under Investigation"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-10-12T12:36:17",
      "type": "Assigned"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-10-15T00:00:00",
      "type": "5-Day Letter"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-10-15T12:24:44",
      "type": "Closed Call/IR"
    }
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  "event_type_basis": "bypass structure or site name (structure: Bypass Outfall)",
  "permit": {
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      "VA0025542"
    ],
    "ms4": null,
    "ms4_links": null,
    "basis": "DEQ's VPDES link on the report"
  },
  "discharger_match": {
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    "by_name": [
      "va-covington"
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    "result": "by permit"
  },
  "volume_basis": "sewage report discharge volume (gallons)",
  "_ended_at_basis": "incident time + duration 8.25 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": "Jackson River",
    "towns": [
      "Covington",
      "Covington City"
    ],
    "notes": null,
    "echo_outfall": null
  },
  "point": {
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    "lon": -79.994709,
    "layer": "DEQ EDMA layer 175 (PReP Reports, Daily)",
    "reference_point": "FC",
    "note": "DEQ's geocode of the report's site address (REFERENCE_POINT 'PG'), not an outfall point",
    "edma_incident": "2026-10-11T16:15:00-04:00",
    "edma_received": "2026-10-12T12:09:00-04:00"
  },
  "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/325732?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), Blue Ridge Regional Office via Virginia DEQ Pollution Response Program (PReP) pollution reports, sewage-related, record 325732, reported Oct 12, 2026, 12:09 PM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-03 02:40 UTC · Read the original notice

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