{"id":131719,"date":"2026-03-06T22:44:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T22:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/131719\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T22:44:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T22:44:29","slug":"sinkhole-in-palmer-township-caused-by-water-line-repairs-to-start-next-week-easton-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/131719\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinkhole in Palmer Township caused by water line, repairs to start next week | Easton Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PALMER TOWNSHIP, Pa. &#8211; The cause and estimated repair time for a sinkhole that opened in Northampton County on Thursday have now been released by PennDOT officials.<\/p>\n<p>The PennDOT Northampton County Maintenance office had a site meeting Friday with Easton Suburban Water Authority (ESWA). It appears a water line caused the sinkhole, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p>After input from both party\u2019s geotechnical representatives, ESWA will be adding flowable fill to the void to re-establish support for the road, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>This work is scheduled for the beginning of next week and the roadway should be opened by the middle to end of next week.<\/p>\n<p>The 2700 block of Newburg Road will remain closed from Brentwood Avenue to Fischer Road until the repairs are completed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PALMER TOWNSHIP, Pa. &#8211; The cause and estimated repair time for a sinkhole that opened in Northampton County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,6290],"class_list":["post-131719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-easton-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131719","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=131719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}