{"id":927388,"date":"2026-10-10T05:20:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T05:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/927388\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T05:20:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T05:20:24","slug":"watermain-break-closes-part-of-riverside-drive-near-hwy-417","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/927388\/","title":{"rendered":"Watermain break closes part of Riverside Drive near Hwy. 417"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/ottawa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ottawa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The City of Ottawa is warning drivers to find alternative routes Friday afternoon after a watermain break closed part of Riverside Drive between Tremblay Road and Industrial Avenue, just south of the Highway 417 interchange.<\/p>\n<p>All northbound lanes closed as crews deal with rupture<\/p>\n<p>CBC News  \u00b7 Posted: Oct 09, 2026 4:38 PM EDT | Last Updated: 7 hours ago<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"a hole visible on the road\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791609623_506_default.jpg\" data-cy=\"leadmedia-story-img\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Ottawa police said a watermain break has closed Riverside Drive northbound between Tremblay Road and Industrial Avenue. (Mathieu Deroy\/CBC)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">The City of Ottawa is warning drivers to find alternative routes Friday afternoon after a watermain break closed part of Riverside Drive between Tremblay Road and Industrial Avenue, just south of the Highway 417 interchange.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">Both northbound lanes and one southbound lane of Riverside Drive remained closed late Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A closer shot of the watermain break on Riverside Drive\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791609624_401_default.jpg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.778523489932886\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption-oOSXz\">Police and city crews can be seen near a broken watermain on Riverside Drive. (Mathieu Deroy\/CBC)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">A sinkhole the width of one lane could be seen in the area of the watermain break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">The city said drivers can expect major delays as crews respond to the rupture.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"reportIssue-MwDQL\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/corrections-clarifications-1.5893564\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Corrections and clarifications<\/a>\u00b7<a class=\"reportIssue-MwDQL\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/email-cbc-contact-phone-tips-news-story-1.6466536\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Submit a news tip<\/a>\u00b7Report error<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ottawa The City of Ottawa is warning drivers to find alternative routes Friday afternoon after a watermain break&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":927389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-927388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/927389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}