{"id":124668,"date":"2026-02-27T01:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T01:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/124668\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T01:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T01:18:07","slug":"massive-water-main-break-sends-water-shooting-across-route-8-in-shaler-township-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/124668\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive water main break sends water shooting across Route 8 in Shaler Township \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">SHALER TOWNSHIP, Pa. \u2014 A massive water main break shut down Route 8 in Shaler Township on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Photos and video from viewers showed water shooting into the air near the intersection of Burchfield Road. The water has since been turned off. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Route 8 was initially fully closed from Butler Plank Road to Burchfield Road, but all lanes except one going northbound have reopened. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Hampton Shaler Water Authority confirmed to Channel 11 that they have a crew there making repairs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SHALER TOWNSHIP, Pa. \u2014 A massive water main break shut down Route 8 in Shaler Township on Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[14161,6094,58452,58453,865,869,3824,58455,11180,139,58449,859,58454,73,75,74,44542,58450,58451,52856,420,860],"class_list":{"0":"post-124668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-andrew","9":"tag-andrew_havrenick","10":"tag-birchfield_road","11":"tag-butler_plank_road","12":"tag-channel_1","13":"tag-channel_11","14":"tag-gordon","15":"tag-hampton-shayer_water_authority","16":"tag-millville","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-north_hills_road","19":"tag-ott_news","20":"tag-pine_creek","21":"tag-pittsburgh","22":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","23":"tag-pittsburgh-news","24":"tag-ross_park_mall","25":"tag-route_8","26":"tag-shaylor","27":"tag-shaylor_township","28":"tag-video","29":"tag-wpxi-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124668","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=124668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}