Treatment bypass reported, Oct 12, 2026

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  "report": {
    "id": "325862",
    "via": "api",
    "incident": "2026-10-12T01:30:00",
    "incident_end": null,
    "received": "2026-10-12T00:00:00",
    "closed": "2026-10-19T14:03:50",
    "modified": "2026-10-19T14:03:50",
    "date_unknown": false,
    "site_name": "UD/Bypass-ACSA-Stuarts Draft WWTP-Wayne Avenue",
    "address": "391 Wayne Ave",
    "city": "Stuarts Draft",
    "zip": null,
    "county_city": "Augusta County",
    "region": "Valley",
    "status_text": "Closed",
    "categories": [
      "Unauthorized Discharge of Pollutant(s)"
    ],
    "waterbody": "South River",
    "other_waterbody": null,
    "original_waterbody": "South River",
    "water_threatened": "Y",
    "low": 375000,
    "high": 375000,
    "unit": "Gallons",
    "ssors": null,
    "nrc": [],
    "vdem": null,
    "epa": null,
    "facility_name": "Stuarts Draft WWTP",
    "facility_permitted": "Y",
    "responsible_company": "Augusta County Service Authority",
    "still_occurring": "N"
  },
  "text": {
    "incident_comment": "Unusual discharge/bypass at plant due to a UV gate faulted halfway open causing effluent to backup and overflow the UV channel.  Approx 375000 gal discharged and it did reach the South River. \nNo impacts to state watrs or fish kills were observed.",
    "location_comment": "391 Wayne Ave\nStuarts Draft\nEffluent UVs",
    "closure_comment": "See VA0066877."
  },
  "sewage": [
    {
      "duration_h": 6.5,
      "component": null,
      "component_id": null,
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      "volume_unknown": null,
      "wet_weather": "N",
      "treated": null,
      "precipitation_in": null,
      "causes": [
        "Other"
      ],
      "impacts": [
        "Discharge to State Waters"
      ],
      "corrective_action": "Upon discovery, the UV gate was set to the correct height, restoring channel flow to normal. \nA work order has been submitted to Augusta Water's maintenance department to inspect the malfunctioning UV gate, determine the cause of the failure, and complete the necessary repairs to reduce the likelihood of recurrence.",
      "steps_taken": null,
      "component_comment": null,
      "other_cause": null
    }
  ],
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      "type": "5-Day Letter"
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      "at": "2026-10-19T13:55:48",
      "type": "Call Received"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-10-19T13:56:05",
      "type": "Under Investigation"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-10-19T13:56:06",
      "type": "Assigned"
    },
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      "at": "2026-10-19T14:03:50",
      "type": "Closed Call/IR"
    }
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  "created_in_prep": "2026-10-19T13:55:48",
  "event_type_basis": "bypass structure or site name (structure: none)",
  "permit": {
    "typed_permit": "VA0066877",
    "deq_vpdes_links": [
      "VA0066877"
    ],
    "ms4": null,
    "ms4_links": null,
    "basis": "DEQ's VPDES link on the report"
  },
  "discharger_match": {
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    "by_name": null
  },
  "volume_basis": "sewage report discharge volume (gallons)",
  "_ended_at_basis": "incident time + duration 6.5 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": "South River",
    "towns": [
      "Stuarts Draft",
      "Augusta County"
    ],
    "notes": null,
    "echo_outfall": null
  },
  "point": {
    "lat": 38.020397,
    "lon": -79.018442,
    "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": "2026-10-12T01:30:00-04:00",
    "edma_received": "2026-10-12T00:00:00-04:00"
  },
  "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/325862?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 325862, reported Oct 12, 2026, 12:00 AM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-03 02:40 UTC · Read the original notice

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