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

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{
  "report": {
    "id": "325834",
    "via": "api",
    "incident": "2026-10-16T14:57:34",
    "incident_end": null,
    "received": "2026-10-16T15:05:41",
    "closed": "2026-10-23T11:12:30",
    "modified": "2026-10-23T11:12:30",
    "date_unknown": true,
    "site_name": "SSO - 468 Woodford St - Norfolk",
    "address": "468 Woodford Street",
    "city": "Norfolk",
    "zip": "23503",
    "county_city": "Norfolk City",
    "region": "Tidewater",
    "status_text": "Closed",
    "categories": [
      "Risk Tier 2",
      "Sanitary Sewer Overflow"
    ],
    "waterbody": "Mason Creek",
    "other_waterbody": null,
    "original_waterbody": null,
    "water_threatened": "Y",
    "low": 300,
    "high": 300,
    "unit": "Gallons",
    "ssors": "106815",
    "nrc": [
      "1476386"
    ],
    "vdem": null,
    "epa": null,
    "facility_name": null,
    "facility_permitted": "N",
    "responsible_company": "City of Norfolk Utilites",
    "still_occurring": "N"
  },
  "text": {
    "incident_comment": "DEQ received a report stating, Sewer overflow into storm drain.\n\n5 Day Letter received from City Storm water. \n\nDEQ requested additional information from City Public Utilities, SSORS 106815 received.",
    "location_comment": "468 Woodford St.",
    "closure_comment": "SSORS ID 106815 received and will be tracked by VPDES. No further action at this time."
  },
  "sewage": [
    {
      "duration_h": 6,
      "component": "Manhole",
      "component_id": 1,
      "volume_gal": 300,
      "volume_unknown": "N",
      "wet_weather": "N",
      "treated": "N",
      "precipitation_in": null,
      "causes": [
        "Blockage"
      ],
      "impacts": [
        "Discharge to State Waters"
      ],
      "corrective_action": "Cleaned sewer main line of grease",
      "steps_taken": null,
      "component_comment": null,
      "other_cause": null
    }
  ],
  "status_log": [
    {
      "at": "2026-10-16T15:05:42",
      "type": "Call Received"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-10-21T10:23:27",
      "type": "Assigned"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-10-21T10:23:27",
      "type": "Under Investigation"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-10-23T11:12:30",
      "type": "Closed Call/IR"
    }
  ],
  "created_in_prep": "2026-10-16T15:05:42",
  "event_type_basis": "DEQ category Sanitary Sewer Overflow",
  "permit": {
    "typed_permit": null,
    "deq_vpdes_links": null,
    "ms4": null,
    "ms4_links": [
      "WAT_MS4_IP: 633000000505",
      "CORE_FAC: Norfolk City MS4"
    ],
    "basis": "none"
  },
  "discharger_match": {
    "by_permit": null,
    "by_name": [
      "va-norfolk-utilities"
    ],
    "result": "by operator name in the report"
  },
  "volume_basis": "sewage report discharge volume (gallons)",
  "_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": "Mason Creek",
    "towns": [
      "Norfolk",
      "Norfolk City"
    ],
    "notes": null,
    "echo_outfall": null
  },
  "point": {
    "lat": 36.932289,
    "lon": -76.250476,
    "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": "2026-10-16T14:57:34-04:00",
    "edma_received": "2026-10-16T15:05:41-04:00"
  },
  "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/325834?expand=prepStatusCode,prepUnitTypeCode,prepReportSewages.prepComponentTypeCode,prepReportSewages.prepSewageCauses.prepCauseCode,prepReportSewages.prepSewageImpacts.prepImpactTypeCode,prepReportReleaseSubtypes.prepReleaseSubtypeCode,prepReportPermitViews,prepOriginalReport,prepReportEvents.prepEventTypeCode,prepFipsCode.fipsRegion",
  "duplicates": [
    "va-deq-prep:325895"
  ]
}

Source: Virginia DEQ Pollution Response Program (PReP), Tidewater Regional Office via Virginia DEQ Pollution Response Program (PReP) pollution reports, sewage-related, record 325834, reported Oct 16, 2026, 3:05 PM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-03 02:40 UTC · Read the original notice

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