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    "id": "326069",
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    "incident": "2026-04-15T10:19:21",
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    "received": "2026-10-31T10:20:11",
    "closed": "2026-10-31T10:36:27",
    "modified": "2026-10-31T10:36:27",
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    "site_name": "Campers w/o Septic - Unknown RP - Halifax County",
    "address": "Piney Grove Road",
    "city": "Alton",
    "zip": "24520",
    "county_city": "Halifax County",
    "region": "Blue Ridge",
    "status_text": "Closed",
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    "responsible_company": null,
    "still_occurring": "Y"
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  "text": {
    "incident_comment": "Family of 4 has been camping for 6 months across from my property and they have no water or power. There are several campers and none of them have septic and are dumping waste on ground and down hillside.\n\nReferred to VDH Southside Health District and Halifax County Code Enforcement.",
    "location_comment": "Field with campers and homemade lodge.",
    "closure_comment": "Referred to VDH Southside Health District and Halifax County Code Enforcement - no further PREP action required."
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      "component_comment": "Camper",
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    }
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      "at": "2026-10-31T10:20:12",
      "type": "Call Received"
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      "type": "Under Investigation"
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  "event_type_basis": "DEQ category Not Within DEQ Jurisdiction, Risk Tier Referred is not a sewer-overflow category",
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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": {
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    "towns": [
      "Alton",
      "Halifax County"
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    "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": "2026-04-15T10:19:21-04:00",
    "edma_received": "2026-10-31T10:20:11-04:00"
  },
  "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/326069?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), Blue Ridge Regional Office via Virginia DEQ Pollution Response Program (PReP) pollution reports, sewage-related, record 326069, reported Oct 31, 2026, 10:20 AM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-03 02:40 UTC · Read the original notice

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