{"id":102588,"date":"2026-02-02T00:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T00:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/102588\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T00:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T00:24:09","slug":"repairs-completed-service-restored-after-water-main-break-in-hill-section","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/102588\/","title":{"rendered":"Repairs completed, service restored after water main break in Hill Section"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania American Water crews completed repairs and restored service to 55 customers Sunday around 11 a.m. after a break in a 135-year-old water main led to the closure of some roads near the 600 block of Ash Street on Saturday, said Alana Roberts, a spokeswoman for the water company.<\/p>\n<p>Reported around 12:30 p.m. Saturday, the break occurred in a 16-inch-diameter water main dating to 1891, water company officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Customers in Scranton, Dickson City and the Abingtons received a message from the water company Sunday notifying them that emergency repairs were completed and they may resume normal water use.<\/p>\n<p>Customers \u2014 even those who don\u2019t live in the immediate area of the break \u2014 were alerted they may have discolored water due to the size and complexity of the system, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with discolored water should run cold-water taps only, at the lowest level of their house, for about three to five minutes until the water becomes clear, officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania American Water crews completed repairs and restored service to 55 customers Sunday around 11 a.m. after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[201,182,139,28,178,180,179,181],"class_list":["post-102588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-top-stories-stt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102588","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=102588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}