Sanitary sewer overflow (SSO) reported

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  "report": {
    "id": "325931",
    "via": "api",
    "incident": "2026-10-21T20:00:17",
    "incident_end": null,
    "received": "2026-10-22T15:07:06",
    "closed": null,
    "modified": "2026-10-22T15:42:32",
    "date_unknown": true,
    "site_name": "SSO - SCPU - Massaponax WWTF - Hall Dr",
    "address": "10419 Hall Industrial Dr",
    "city": "Fredericksburg",
    "zip": "22553",
    "county_city": "Spotsylvania County",
    "region": "Northern",
    "status_text": "Under Investigation",
    "categories": [
      "Risk Tier 2",
      "Sanitary Sewer Overflow"
    ],
    "waterbody": "Massaponax Creek",
    "other_waterbody": "UT of Massaponax Creek",
    "original_waterbody": null,
    "water_threatened": "Y",
    "low": 1,
    "high": -1,
    "unit": "Unknown",
    "ssors": null,
    "nrc": [],
    "vdem": null,
    "epa": null,
    "facility_name": "Massapoanx wastewater treatment plant",
    "facility_permitted": "Y",
    "responsible_company": "Spotsylvania County Utilities",
    "still_occurring": "N"
  },
  "text": {
    "incident_comment": "This incident is actively under investigation by the Department of Environmental Quality. See the 'Reported Description of Incident' for the original report.",
    "location_comment": "Offsite location in wooded area behind 10419 Hall industrial dr",
    "closure_comment": null
  },
  "sewage": [],
  "status_log": [
    {
      "at": "2026-10-22T15:07:07",
      "type": "Call Received"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-10-22T15:42:32",
      "type": "Under Investigation"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-10-22T15:42:33",
      "type": "Assigned"
    }
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  "created_in_prep": "2026-10-22T15:07:07",
  "event_type_basis": "DEQ category Sanitary Sewer Overflow",
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    "basis": "none"
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  },
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  "_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": "Massaponax Creek; UT of Massaponax Creek",
    "towns": [
      "Fredericksburg",
      "Spotsylvania County"
    ],
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    "echo_outfall": null
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  "point": {
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    "lon": -77.497292,
    "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": "2026-10-21T20:00:17-04:00",
    "edma_received": "2026-10-22T15:07:06-04:00"
  },
  "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/325931?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), Northern Regional Office via Virginia DEQ Pollution Response Program (PReP) pollution reports, sewage-related, record 325931, reported Oct 22, 2026, 3:07 PM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-03 02:40 UTC · Read the original notice

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