{"id":209181,"date":"2026-03-07T16:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T16:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/209181\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T16:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T16:35:10","slug":"water-main-break-in-oakland-county-sparks-boil-water-advisories-flooding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/209181\/","title":{"rendered":"Water main break in Oakland County sparks boil water advisories, flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/6wflfhaezfyynlx4.jpg\" alt=\"Boil water advisory in Novi due to large water main break\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. (FOX 2) &#8211; A water main break in Farmington Hills has flooded 14 Mile Road at Verona as well as surrounding streets.<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">The break was discovered by Great Lakes Water Authority crews when they received a pressure loss alert around 4:30 a.m. Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">They are working to isolate the break on a 48-inch water main on 14 Mile at Verona, between Drake and Farmington Roads.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/boil-water.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">People were trapped in their cars on the flooded roadways and rescued by the Farmington Hills Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">GLWA and the Oakland County Water Resources Commissioner&#8217;s Office have crews assessing the situation and planning their next steps.<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">Residents and motorists are asked to avoid the area so that utility and emergency crews can work safely.<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">This is a developing situation. Stay with FOX 2 for updates.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/water-flooding-wb.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">Screenshot from West Bloomfield police Facebook <\/p>\n<p>     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox2detroit.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox2detroit.com\/tag\/us\/mi\/oakland-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. (FOX 2) &#8211; A water main break in Farmington Hills has flooded 14 Mile Road&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[2042,249,100,143,904,145,144,1181],"class_list":["post-209181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-mi","tag-news","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-county","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}