{"id":164004,"date":"2026-02-21T18:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T18:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/164004\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T18:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T18:40:12","slug":"water-main-break-slows-florida-keys-weekend-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/164004\/","title":{"rendered":"Water main break slows Florida Keys weekend traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img class=\"responsive-image\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\"  alt=\"Water spills onto the Old Highway and U.S. 1 at mile marker 91 in Tavernier in the Florida Keys on Saturday, Feb. 21, 2026. The Monroe County Sheriff\u2019s Office says there is a water-main break.\" title=\"Water spills onto the Old Highway and U.S. 1 at mile marker 91 in Tavernier in the Florida Keys on Saturday, Feb. 21, 2026. The Monroe County Sheriff\u2019s Office says there is a water-main break.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        Water spills onto the Old Highway and U.S. 1 at mile marker 91 in Tavernier in the Florida Keys on Saturday, Feb. 21, 2026. The Monroe County Sheriff\u2019s Office says there is a water-main break.<\/p>\n<p>            Monroe County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/p>\n<p>Weekend traffic was slowed along U.S. 1 in the Florida Keys due to a water-main break on U.S. 1, the Monroe County Sheriff\u2019s Office said.<\/p>\n<p>The break happened around 11:30 a.m. Saturday at mile marker 91 in the Upper Keys community of Tavernier, which is between Key Largo to the north and Islamorada to the south.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff\u2019s office said the Florida Keys Aqueduct Authority, which maintains the line, is working to fix the break.<\/p>\n<p>This story will be updated as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/profile\/218644250\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/profile.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of David Goodhue\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/profile\/218644250\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Goodhue<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Miami Herald<\/p>\n<p>            David Goodhue covers the Florida Keys and South Florida for FLKeysNews.com and the Miami Herald. Before joining the Herald, he covered Congress, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy in Washington, D.C. He is a graduate of the University of Delaware.\u00a0\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Water spills onto the Old Highway and U.S. 1 at mile marker 91 in Tavernier in the Florida&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,2472,29,59778,4187,729,1162,78342],"class_list":{"0":"post-164004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-florida-headlines","10":"tag-florida-keys","11":"tag-florida-news","12":"tag-monroe","13":"tag-sheriffs-office","14":"tag-traffic","15":"tag-u-s-1","16":"tag-water-main"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}