{"id":245933,"date":"2026-07-17T16:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/245933\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T16:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:09:07","slug":"water-main-break-impacts-service-closes-buildings-in-downtown-scranton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/245933\/","title":{"rendered":"Water main break impacts service, closes buildings in Downtown Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A water main break in downtown Scranton has shuttered City Hall, Lackawanna County Government Center, Courthouse and other county facilities on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania American Water notified the county that it was shutting off water service to the downtown to accommodate repairs, per a county press release.<\/p>\n<p>The break is impacting service to other buildings downtown as well, including the newspaper\u2019s offices at 305 Linden St., though the extent of the impact was not immediately clear. Efforts to reach water company officials were not immediately successful.<\/p>\n<p>Repairs are expected to completed for the FIFA World Cup Fan Zone festivities taking place Saturday and Sunday on Courthouse Square, the county said.<\/p>\n<p>A notice on Scranton\u2019s Facebook page said: \u201cDue to a local water main break, #Scranton City Hall will be closed on Fri., July 17. Please visit www.scrantonpa.gov to connect with City services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Check back for updates\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A water main break in downtown Scranton has shuttered City Hall, Lackawanna County Government Center, Courthouse and other&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[201,182,139,28,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-245933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245933","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=245933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}