Sanitary sewer overflow (SSO) reported, Oct 12, 2026

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{
  "report": {
    "id": "325877",
    "via": "api",
    "incident": "2026-10-12T09:30:00",
    "incident_end": null,
    "received": "2026-10-12T13:49:00",
    "closed": "2026-10-21T07:24:31",
    "modified": "2026-10-21T07:25:02",
    "date_unknown": false,
    "site_name": "SSO - Buchanan County PSA - Conaway WWTP - Influent Pump Station Manhole",
    "address": "Route 460",
    "city": "Big Rock",
    "zip": "24656",
    "county_city": "Buchanan County",
    "region": "Southwest",
    "status_text": "Closed",
    "categories": [
      "Sanitary Sewer Overflow"
    ],
    "waterbody": "Levisa Fork",
    "other_waterbody": null,
    "original_waterbody": "Levisa Fork",
    "water_threatened": "Y",
    "low": 1,
    "high": 60000,
    "unit": "Gallons",
    "ssors": null,
    "nrc": [],
    "vdem": null,
    "epa": null,
    "facility_name": "Buchanan Cnty PSA - Conaway WWTP",
    "facility_permitted": "Y",
    "responsible_company": "Buchanan County PSA",
    "still_occurring": "N"
  },
  "text": {
    "incident_comment": "On October 12, 2026, [name removed] with the Buchanan Co PSA, provided email notification reporting that due to the inflow of river water caused by heavy rain flow was restricted into the influent pump station at the Conaway WWTP.  Due to the restricted flow an overflow occurred upstream of the pump station and was discovered at 9:30am October 12, 2026. An update was provided on October 13, 2026, noting that the overflow had diminished overnight and stopped at 8:30 am. The total estimated overflow was 60,000 gallons. The incident was closed on October 21, 2026.",
    "location_comment": "Route 460, Big Rock, VA",
    "closure_comment": "The overflow stopped on October 13, 2026, and the 5-day written report was provided via email on October 12, 2026, should further action be needed it will be taken by DEQ SWRO Water Compliance section staff"
  },
  "sewage": [
    {
      "duration_h": 23,
      "component": "Manhole",
      "component_id": 1,
      "volume_gal": 60000,
      "volume_unknown": "N",
      "wet_weather": "Y",
      "treated": "N",
      "precipitation_in": null,
      "causes": [
        "High Levels of Inflow and/or Infiltration"
      ],
      "impacts": [
        "Discharge to State Waters"
      ],
      "corrective_action": "The Buchanan County PSA is currently working on the I/I issues within their system. They have located several areas of concern with the camera work that Hill Construction has been doing for their flood repair. They are trying to repair these issues as quick as possible.",
      "steps_taken": null,
      "component_comment": null,
      "other_cause": null
    }
  ],
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    {
      "at": "2026-10-12T00:00:00",
      "type": "Correspondence Received"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-10-13T00:00:00",
      "type": "5-Day Letter"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-10-16T00:00:00",
      "type": "Correspondence Received"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-10-20T13:12:57",
      "type": "Call Received"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-10-20T13:13:24",
      "type": "Under Investigation"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-10-20T13:13:24",
      "type": "Assigned"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-10-21T07:24:31",
      "type": "Closed Call/IR"
    }
  ],
  "created_in_prep": "2026-10-20T13:12:57",
  "event_type_basis": "DEQ category Sanitary Sewer Overflow",
  "permit": {
    "typed_permit": "VA0090531",
    "deq_vpdes_links": [
      "VA0067822"
    ],
    "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 23 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": "Levisa Fork",
    "towns": [
      "Big Rock",
      "Buchanan County"
    ],
    "notes": null,
    "echo_outfall": null
  },
  "point": {
    "lat": 37.350853,
    "lon": -82.207872,
    "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": "2026-10-12T09:30:00-04:00",
    "edma_received": "2026-10-12T13:49:00-04:00"
  },
  "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/325877?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), Southwest Regional Office via Virginia DEQ Pollution Response Program (PReP) pollution reports, sewage-related, record 325877, reported Oct 12, 2026, 1:49 PM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-03 02:40 UTC · Read the original notice

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