{"id":186757,"date":"2026-05-08T01:33:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T01:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/186757\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T01:33:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T01:33:32","slug":"officials-investigate-street-opening-in-allentown-on-the-same-street-where-a-january-sinkhole-displaced-families-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/186757\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials investigate street opening in Allentown on the same street where a January sinkhole displaced families | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Officials investigate street opening in Allentown on the same street where a January sinkhole displaced families\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"828\" height=\"466\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/69fd326dc1798.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Rich Rolen | for WFMZ-TV<\/p>\n<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Crews responded Thursday evening after a report of a street opening on 15th Street \u2014 the same roadway where a sinkhole previously displaced two families who still have not returned home.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Lehigh County Authority, the call came in at 6:39 p.m. Crews arrived on scene by 7 p.m. and confirmed that the opening had not caused any leaks. Teams remained on site through the evening to monitor the situation and ensure no additional issues developed.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Atown street opening\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"828\" height=\"466\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/69fd32bdb01d4.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Rich Rolen | for WFMZ-TV<\/p>\n<p>The street opening appears to be right in front of the two houses that still sit vacant from the massive sinkhole from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfmz.com\/news\/area\/lehighvalley\/lehigh-county\/allentown-area\/sinkhole-opens-in-lehigh-county-forcing-families-to-evacuate\/article_22eb040b-c321-4fc4-ad82-d5b513573b47.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">January this year.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to authorities, the matter is now being handed over to the City of Allentown for further evaluation and any necessary follow\u2011up.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Atown street opening close up\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"828\" height=\"466\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/69fd32f4de1cd.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Rich Rolen | for WFMZ-TV<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Stick with 69 News for any updates as we receive them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rich Rolen | for WFMZ-TV ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Crews responded Thursday evening after a report of a street&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,83305,23865,20030,83304,294,83303],"class_list":["post-186757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-city-evaluation","tag-emergency-crews","tag-lehigh-county-authority","tag-monitoring","tag-public-safety","tag-street-opening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186757","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=186757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}