Sanitary sewer overflow (SSO) reported, Oct 13, 2026

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  "report": {
    "id": "326051",
    "via": "api",
    "incident": "2026-10-13T11:00:00",
    "incident_end": null,
    "received": "2026-10-14T00:00:00",
    "closed": "2026-10-30T11:33:28",
    "modified": "2026-10-30T11:33:28",
    "date_unknown": false,
    "site_name": "UD-Aqua Virginia-Wintergreen Stoney Creek STP-Stoney Creek East",
    "address": "1098 Stoney Creek East",
    "city": "Wintergreen",
    "zip": "22958",
    "county_city": "Nelson County",
    "region": "Valley",
    "status_text": "Closed",
    "categories": [
      "Sanitary Sewer Overflow"
    ],
    "waterbody": null,
    "other_waterbody": null,
    "original_waterbody": null,
    "water_threatened": "N",
    "low": null,
    "high": null,
    "unit": null,
    "ssors": null,
    "nrc": [],
    "vdem": null,
    "epa": null,
    "facility_name": "Wintergreen Stoney Creek STP",
    "facility_permitted": "Y",
    "responsible_company": "Aqua Virginia, Inc.",
    "still_occurring": "N"
  },
  "text": {
    "incident_comment": "Unusual discharge event at plant due to critical equipment failure in the RBC. The gearbox and drive chain failed and the RBC isn't turning. The event has been ongoing for 120 hours and they have discharged 0.079 MG. Aqua staff have not observed any fish kill or other obvious adverse impacts to the surrounding environment.",
    "location_comment": "1098 Stoney Creek East",
    "closure_comment": "See VA0074047"
  },
  "sewage": [
    {
      "duration_h": 120,
      "component": null,
      "component_id": null,
      "volume_gal": null,
      "volume_unknown": "Y",
      "wet_weather": "N",
      "treated": null,
      "precipitation_in": null,
      "causes": [
        "Other"
      ],
      "impacts": [],
      "corrective_action": "Staff redirected air flow to maintain dissolved oxygen levels within the effluent and the RBC. Onsite staff have also been rotating the drum manually to compensate.\nReplacement parts will be installed.",
      "steps_taken": null,
      "component_comment": null,
      "other_cause": null
    }
  ],
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      "at": "2026-10-13T00:00:00",
      "type": "5-Day Letter"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-10-30T11:25:03",
      "type": "Call Received"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-10-30T11:25:11",
      "type": "Assigned"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-10-30T11:25:11",
      "type": "Under Investigation"
    },
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      "at": "2026-10-30T11:33:28",
      "type": "Closed Call/IR"
    }
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  "created_in_prep": "2026-10-30T11:25:03",
  "event_type_basis": "DEQ category Sanitary Sewer Overflow",
  "permit": {
    "typed_permit": "VA0074047",
    "deq_vpdes_links": [
      "VA0074047"
    ],
    "ms4": null,
    "ms4_links": null,
    "basis": "DEQ's VPDES link on the report"
  },
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    "by_name": null
  },
  "volume_basis": null,
  "_ended_at_basis": "incident time + duration 120 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": null,
    "towns": [
      "Wintergreen",
      "Nelson County"
    ],
    "notes": null,
    "echo_outfall": null
  },
  "point": {
    "lat": 37.9003,
    "lon": -78.861583,
    "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": "2026-10-13T11:00:00-04:00",
    "edma_received": "2026-10-14T00:00:00-04:00"
  },
  "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/326051?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 326051, reported Oct 14, 2026, 12:00 AM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-03 02:40 UTC · Read the original notice

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