{"id":167483,"date":"2026-04-16T12:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T12:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/167483\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T12:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T12:14:08","slug":"pittsburgh-bar-shut-down-over-wastewater-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/167483\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Bar Shut Down Over Wastewater Leak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Pittsburgh bar\/lounge has been ordered closed by the Allegheny County Health Department.<\/p>\n<p>Inspectors say Choices Lounge on Webster Avenue in the Middle Hill was ordered closed on April 11 after an inspection found an imminent wastewater hazard.<\/p>\n<p>Wastewater was seen actively leaking through the ceiling of the men\u2019s room and was being tracked through the food area.<\/p>\n<p>Rodent droppings were also found in the kitchen behind a freezer chest.<\/p>\n<p>That violation is considered \u201clow risk\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Health Department says the facility is closed until the leak is eliminated.<\/p>\n<p>The closure was reflected on the Health Department\u2019s website on April 15.<\/p>\n<p>Any updates and changes to the bar\u2019s current status can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alleghenycounty.us\/Services\/Health-Department\/Food-Safety\/Alerts-Closures-and-Enforcements\/Consumer-Alerts-and-Closures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Pittsburgh bar\/lounge has been ordered closed by the Allegheny County Health Department. Inspectors say Choices Lounge on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3400,75445,3401,73,75,74,35898],"class_list":{"0":"post-167483","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-allegheny-county-health-department","9":"tag-choices-lounge","10":"tag-inspection","11":"tag-pittsburgh","12":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","13":"tag-pittsburgh-news","14":"tag-wastewater"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167483","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=167483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}