{"id":89679,"date":"2025-12-19T20:12:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T20:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/89679\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T20:12:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T20:12:16","slug":"jacksonville-highway-repairs-extended-into-new-year-after-sewage-spill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/89679\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville highway repairs extended into new year after sewage spill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; Part of a major Jacksonville highway will stay closed into the new year due to ongoing repairs that stemmed from a sewage spill. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">NCDOT officials say that due to unforeseen utility conflicts, Highway 24 near Highway 17 will remain closed for repairs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The road is now expected to reopen January 9th by 5 p.m., weather permitting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The road was shut down last weekend after officials said hundreds of thousands of gallons of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.witn.com\/2025\/12\/15\/jacksonville-road-remains-closed-crews-clean-up-sewage-spill\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.witn.com\/2025\/12\/15\/jacksonville-road-remains-closed-crews-clean-up-sewage-spill\/\">sewage spilled<\/a> into Scales Creek on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials say the spill stopped several days ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Crews reached the stormwater box last night and are currently digging to expose the broken pipes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">City officials say repairs are expected to be completed ahead of January 9th, but they\u2019re facing challenges with supply delivery due to the holidays. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">DOT officials say drivers can use one of these detours while crews work:<\/p>\n<p>Hwy 24 West to Bell Fork Rd. to West Huff Dr., to Hwy 17 Bypass South, exit Hwy 24 Business\/Lejeune Blvd.Hwy 24 West to Bell Fork Rd. to Hargett St. to Hwy 24 Business\/Lejeune Blvd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials say drivers can still use Hwy 24 West to Hwy 17 Bypass South. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; Part of a major Jacksonville highway will stay closed into the new year due&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[15468,46492,116,118,117,48465,46491,41431,48466,4480],"class_list":{"0":"post-89679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-detour","9":"tag-highway-24","10":"tag-jacksonville","11":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","12":"tag-jacksonville-news","13":"tag-lejeune-blvd","14":"tag-ncdot","15":"tag-road-closed","16":"tag-sewage-spill","17":"tag-witn"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89679","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=89679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}