{"id":109711,"date":"2026-02-10T03:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T03:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/109711\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T03:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T03:19:10","slug":"water-main-break-causes-sinkhole-in-s-whitehall-twp-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/109711\/","title":{"rendered":"Water main break causes sinkhole in S. Whitehall Twp. | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"IMG_3141.JPG\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"828\" height=\"466\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/698a9e6330dac.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Rich Rolen | for WFMZ-TV<\/p>\n<p>S. WHITEHALL TWP., Pa. &#8211; Authorities are responding to a water main break that caused a sinkhole in South Whitehall Township.<\/p>\n<p>Township police told 69 News that the incident is located at the 3000 block of Edinburgh Road off Cedar Crest Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p>A homeowner in the area said crews arrived quickly with heavy equipment and began excavating at the site of the leak.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"IMG_3140.JPG\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"828\" height=\"466\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/698a9e7b9090e.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Officials say Edinburgh Road will remain closed until further notice, and repair crews are expected to work through the night.<\/p>\n<p>The township will post an update once the road is reopened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rich Rolen | for WFMZ-TV S. WHITEHALL TWP., Pa. &#8211; Authorities are responding to a water main break&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,52582,26030,2857,27365,6654,26299,664,2217],"class_list":{"0":"post-109711","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bethlehem","9":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","10":"tag-bethlehem-news","11":"tag-edinburgh-road","12":"tag-emergency-response","13":"tag-infrastructure","14":"tag-repair-crews","15":"tag-road-closure","16":"tag-sinkhole","17":"tag-south-whitehall-township","18":"tag-water-main-break"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109711","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=109711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}