{"id":106928,"date":"2026-02-06T11:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T11:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/106928\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T11:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T11:42:10","slug":"water-main-break-closes-route-61-in-muhlenberg-township","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/106928\/","title":{"rendered":"Water main break closes Route 61 in Muhlenberg Township"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Part of Route 61 in Muhlenberg Township has been shut down due to a water main break.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency crews were called to the scene just after 5 a.m. for water conditions on the road. The road, also known as Pottsville Pike, has been shut down between Tuckerton Road and Reading Crest Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists are being asked to take alternate routes.<\/p>\n<p>Further information was not immediately available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Part of Route 61 in Muhlenberg Township has been shut down due to a water main break. Emergency&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,182,139,28,128,130,129,706],"class_list":{"0":"post-106928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-berks-county","9":"tag-local-news","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-reading-city","13":"tag-reading-city-headlines","14":"tag-reading-city-news","15":"tag-top-stories-reg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106928","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=106928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}