{"id":111113,"date":"2026-02-11T14:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T14:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/111113\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T14:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T14:16:07","slug":"water-main-break-causes-outages-throughout-the-wyoming-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/111113\/","title":{"rendered":"Water main break causes outages throughout the Wyoming Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A water main that broke Tuesday is still causing issues for thousands in Luzerne and Lackawanna Counties.<\/p>\n<p>LUZERNE COUNTY, Pa. \u2014 PA American Water has been working to repair a water main break in West Pittston. Crews were first called around 6:30 p.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Overnight, many more people lost water service.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The impacts include many towns throughout Luzerne County, including Pittston, West Pittston, Duryea, Swoyersville, Forty Fort, Exeter, Kingston, Wyoming, and West Wyoming.<\/p>\n<p>Schools throughout the Wyoming Valley have also closed. You can<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/closings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">\u00a0click here\u00a0<\/a>to check the status of your school.<\/p>\n<p>Luzerne County Manager, Romilda Crocamo, says the following county buildings are also closed:<\/p>\n<p>Luzerne County CourthouseBrominski BuildingVeterans AffairsDistrict Court in West Pittston\/ Forty FortOperations Building in Wyoming                    <\/p>\n<p>A representative with the water company says the break was caused by a contractor digging into the water line.<\/p>\n<p>While repairs are underway, the city of West Pittston is advising residents in the affected area to avoid drinking the water until further notice.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A water main that broke Tuesday is still causing issues for thousands in Luzerne and Lackawanna Counties. LUZERNE&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-111113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111113","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=111113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}