{"id":276623,"date":"2026-05-19T14:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T14:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/276623\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T14:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T14:14:09","slug":"water-main-break-shuts-down-major-fort-lauderdale-intersection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/276623\/","title":{"rendered":"Water main break shuts down major Fort Lauderdale intersection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0May 19, 2026 at 9:55 AM<\/p>\n<p>Eastbound lanes of 17th Street Causeway Bridge also closed due to malfunctionA water main break forced the closure of an intersection in Fort Lauderdale Tuesday morning, causing major traffic disruptions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 A water main break shut down a major Fort Lauderdale intersection Tuesday morning, causing significant traffic disruptions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/05\/19\/rotura-de-tuberia-de-agua-cierra-importante-interseccion-en-fort-lauderdale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/05\/19\/rotura-de-tuberia-de-agua-cierra-importante-interseccion-en-fort-lauderdale\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fort Lauderdale police said all roadways at Cordova Road and Southeast 15th Street were closed in all directions and urged drivers to use alternate routes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sky 10 flew over the scene around 9:35 a.m., capturing large amounts of water pouring from the intersection as police blocked surrounding roads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Separately, the eastbound lanes of the nearby 17th Street Causeway Bridge were closed due to a malfunction, while westbound lanes remained open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Officials have not said what caused the water main break or bridge malfunction, or when the roadways and bridge will reopen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Related media<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Roadway closed in all directions due to water main break at Cordova Rd\/SE 15 St. Please use alternate routes. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EMpWuXK6v2\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/EMpWuXK6v2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fort Lauderdale Police (@ftlauderdalepd) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ftlauderdalepd\/status\/2056722914112626708?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 19, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Ryan Mackey\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/8725e99c-e445-48a0-bd.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Ryan Mackey <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Ryan Mackey is a Digital Journalist at WPLG. He was born on Long Island, New York, and has lived in Sunrise, Florida, since 1994.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0May 19, 2026 at 9:55 AM Eastbound lanes of 17th Street Causeway Bridge also closed due to malfunctionA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-276623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276623","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=276623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}