{"id":155532,"date":"2026-04-02T16:56:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/155532\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T16:56:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:56:22","slug":"barge-stuck-on-dam-in-beaver-falls-prompting-bridge-closures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/155532\/","title":{"rendered":"Barge stuck on dam in Beaver Falls, prompting bridge closures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A barge is stuck on a dam in Beaver Falls, prompting the closure of two bridges.<\/p>\n<p>The City of Beaver Falls Police Department posted a warning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BFPoliceDept\/posts\/pfbid0anyR2fQWhKLMjfWXWGjNnQKz9R797z2DHtuaNcLtA8RuVcnUdYmss4QFUcGofSkQl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0saying the Beaver Falls\/Eastvale Bridge and the Beaver Falls\/New Brighton Bridge are closed. Police said there was an &#8220;issue&#8221; on the Beaver River and &#8220;possible hazards posed to the bridge.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/kdka-beaver-falls-barge.png#.png\" alt=\"kdka-beaver-falls-barge.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  A barge is stuck on a dam in Beaver Falls, prompting the closure of two bridges.<\/p>\n<p>                (Photo: Matt Miller)<\/p>\n<p>PennDOT is on scene assessing the situation, police said. No other details were immediately provided.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Video from the scene shows the barge caught up on the dam as the Beaver River rushes around it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police are asking people to use an alternate route until everything is resolved. There was no timetable provided for the bridge closures.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A barge is stuck on a dam in Beaver Falls, prompting the closure of two bridges. The City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3290,73,75,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-155532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-beaver-county","9":"tag-pittsburgh","10":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","11":"tag-pittsburgh-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155532","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=155532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}