Sanitary sewer overflow (SSO) reported, Mar 20, 2025

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{
  "releases": [
    {
      "title": "Cumberland Plateau Health District Issues Recreational Water Advisory",
      "link": "https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/news/public-relations-contacts/archived-news-releases/2025-regional-news-releases/cumberland-plateau-health-district-issues-recreational-water-advisory/",
      "pubDate": "Fri, 21 Mar 2025 02:31:50 +0000",
      "published": "2025-03-20T22:31:50-04:00",
      "action": "issued",
      "categories": [
        "Cumberland Plateau Health District",
        "health advisory",
        "levisa river",
        "recreational water advisory",
        "sewage overflow",
        "sewer mains",
        "slate creek",
        "waterways"
      ],
      "dateline": "Lebanon",
      "lead": [
        "Cumberland Plateau Health District Issues Recreational Water Advisory",
        "LEBANON, Va. – The Cumberland Plateau Health District recommends that people and pets avoid contact with a portion of the Levisa River and Slate Creek located in Buchanan County due to an ongoing sewage overflow from sewer mains that were damaged by recent flooding. Activities to repair the sewer mains are ongoing, weather permitting.",
        "This health advisory extends along the Levisa River from 0.5-miles east of Anchorage Shopping Center along U.S. HWY 460 to the Kentucky state line and portions of Slate Creek from the Buchanan County Department of Social Services on Route 83 downstream to the Levisa River in Buchanan County. The length of the affected waterways in Virginia is approximately 24 miles.",
        "Swallowing contaminated water can cause gastrointestinal illnesses, with vomiting, diarrhea, nausea, abdominal pain or fever. Contact with contaminated water also can cause infections of the ears, nose, throat and skin. For your safety, humans and pets should avoid contact with the affected portions of the Levisa River and Slate Creek until the sewer mains have been repaired and the advisory is lifted.",
        "To prevent recreational water illnesses due to exposure to sewage release events, people should:"
      ],
      "advisory_area": "This health advisory extends along the Levisa River from 0.5-miles east of Anchorage Shopping Center along U.S.",
      "advice": "LEBANON, Va. – The Cumberland Plateau Health District recommends that people and pets avoid contact with a portion of the Levisa River and Slate Creek located in Buchanan County due to an ongoing sewage overflow from sewer mains that were damaged by recent flooding. For your safety, humans and pets should avoid contact with the affected portions of the Levisa River and Slate Creek until the sewer mains have been repaired and the advisory is lifted.",
      "role": "issued"
    }
  ],
  "kind": "recreational",
  "place_words": [],
  "event_type_basis": "the release names a sewage spill or sewer break",
  "valid_until": null,
  "notes": [
    "no lift release found in the feeds 592 days after the issue; kept as published (active)"
  ],
  "water_placement": {
    "subject": "",
    "town": "Lebanon",
    "notes": null
  },
  "discharger_named": null,
  "_time_basis": "RSS pubDate (UTC) shown in America/New_York; started_at = the issued release, ended_at = the lift"
}

Source: Virginia Department of Health (Cumberland Plateau Health District) via Virginia Department of Health recreational water and swimming advisories (newsroom search RSS), record cumberland-plateau-health-district-issues-recreational-water-advisory, published Mar 20, 2025, 10:31 PM EDT, retrieved 2026-11-03 02:42 UTC · Read the original notice

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