{"id":253053,"date":"2026-07-27T17:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T17:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/253053\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T17:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T17:19:09","slug":"downtown-scranton-water-main-break-shuts-down-streets-government-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/253053\/","title":{"rendered":"Downtown Scranton water main break shuts down streets, government buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"

A water main break in downtown Scranton has prompted the closure of several government buildings and led to a boil advisory while crews work to repair the rupture.<\/p>\n

Pennsylvania American Water spokeswoman Susan Turcmanovich said crews are working to isolate a break in a 24-inch main under the 200 block of North Washington Avenue.<\/p>\n

The boil advisory applies to customers in the areas on the map attached to this story. More information can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Pennsylvania<\/p>\n

Pennsylvania American Water alerts<\/p>\n

Pennsylvania American Water on Monday, July 27 said people in the shaded area may be affected by a downtown Scranton water main break and may experience a service interruption or low water pressure.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019ll have an update on repair estimates and customers impacted by the shut down later today,” Turcmanovich said in an email update shortly after noon.<\/p>\n

The break appears to be in front of the federal courthouse.<\/p>\n

Officials said Scranton City Hall is closed, as are the following Lackawanna County buildings: the Gateway Building, Lackawanna County Courthouse, community corrections, the Brixx Building, the county Government Center and the PenFed\/Health and Human Services Building.<\/p>\n

Monday’s rupture is the second substantial downtown area break<\/a> in less than two weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A water main break in downtown Scranton has prompted the closure of several government buildings and led to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-253053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253053","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=253053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}