{"id":101750,"date":"2026-01-31T18:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T18:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/101750\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T18:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T18:48:11","slug":"water-main-break-in-scrantons-hill-section","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/101750\/","title":{"rendered":"Water main break in Scranton&#8217;s Hill Section"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A water main break near Ash Street and Madison Avenue flooded the area with a large amount of water as it made its way down the Hill Section.<\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 A large reported water main break in <a href=\"http:\/\/wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scranton&#8217;s<\/a> Hill Section is leaving homes and businesses in the area without running water, and those downhill of the break at risk of flooding.<\/p>\n<p>The break in the area of Ash Street and Madison Avenue placed a large part of Scranton under a general alert by Pennsylvania American Water as it investigates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__placeholder\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/c2026c7c-399c-43ab-9558-6e9fb288c101_16x9.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__main\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/c2026c7c-399c-43ab-9558-6e9fb288c101_1140x641.jpg\"  alt=\"\" style=\"opacity:0\" onload=\"this.style.opacity=1\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The above photo shows Ash Street at Madison Avenue covered in a steady stream of flowing water, making its way down the Hill Section.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Scranton Police say Ash Street and Myrtle Street from North Washington Avenue to Madison Avenue are closed due to the break.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania American Water is on scene investigating the incident.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story; check back for more details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A water main break near Ash Street and Madison Avenue flooded the area with a large amount of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-101750","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-scranton","9":"tag-scranton-headlines","10":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}