{"id":282863,"date":"2026-05-24T15:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T15:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/282863\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T15:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T15:36:10","slug":"water-main-break-affects-las-olas-area-in-fort-lauderdale-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/282863\/","title":{"rendered":"Water main break affects Las Olas area in Fort Lauderdale Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0May 24, 2026 at 11:15 AM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/O7HRXMS42VHPHCO7C4Z55WBW2M.jpeg\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"\/>Workers were dealing with a water main break on Saturday and Sunday in Fort Lauderdale. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A water main break affected an area of East Las Olas Boulevard on Saturday and Sunday in Fort Lauderdale Beach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fort Lauderdale police officers temporarily closed the Las Olas Boulevard eastbound lanes at Seabreeze Boulevard. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">City workers and Southern Underground Industries workers were repairing a 12-inch water main, impacted asphalt and landscaping, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fortlauderdale.gov\/Home\/Components\/News\/News\/8433\/16?widgetId=41\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.fortlauderdale.gov\/Home\/Components\/News\/News\/8433\/16?widgetId=41\">according<\/a> to a city update. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/PZFE4ODE2FCFZCKMHFCQFOYXAY.png\"  width=\"800\" height=\"813\"\/>City traffic map <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Related X post on Saturday<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">E Las Olas Blvd to A1A north back open to traffic. <br \/>Seabreeze Blvd southbound at E Las Olas Blvd will remain closed due to the water main break. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/R4HO1siD8F\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/R4HO1siD8F<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fort Lauderdale Police (@ftlauderdalepd) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ftlauderdalepd\/status\/2058340235633725874?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 24, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Location <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Local 10 News Assignment Editor Mari Ortiz contributed to this report.<\/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=\"Andrea Torres\" 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\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0May 24, 2026 at 11:15 AM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandWorkers were dealing with a water main break on Saturday and Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-282863","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\/282863","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=282863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}