{"id":253516,"date":"2026-07-28T05:02:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T05:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/253516\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T05:02:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T05:02:06","slug":"community-provides-water-for-downtown-scranton-residents-impacted-by-water-main-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/253516\/","title":{"rendered":"Community provides water for downtown Scranton residents impacted by water main break"},"content":{"rendered":"

A water main break along North Washington Avenue impacted over 700 Scranton residents, leaving many of them in need of outside resources to get clean water<\/p>\n

SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 The sounds of construction crews filled courthouse square in downtown Scranton<\/a> on Monday when many residents were left without running water after a water main break around 10 am.<\/p>\n

This comes after a different water main break back on July 16.<\/p>\n

The Jermyn Apartments received a large donation of water cases for the building’s tenants free of charge.<\/p>\n


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Reginald Johnson chose to use only bottled water provided by Jermyn instead of the water in the tankers.<\/p>\n

“We’re getting by. They’re helping us. They’ve been giving us water a lot. They made sure it kept on coming,” said Johnson.<\/p>\n

Not only were Scranton residents impacted by the water main break.<\/p>\n

Many buildings like City Hall were also left without running water, leading to the regular city council meeting set for 6:30 pm this Tuesday to be preemptively moved from City Hall to West Scranton Intermediate School.<\/p>\n

All of the businesses in the Steamtown Market were also left without water.<\/p>\n

The market’s management decided to close early at 6 pm.<\/p>\n

“It really disrupts their day. We had people in dentist’s chairs, people getting coffee, and everything just shut off. Hopefully we get this resolved quickly; my fingers are crossed,” said Anthony Cali from Steamtown Market.<\/p>\n

Just down the street, Scranton Fire Headquarters provided meals for residents who have had no access to clean, running water.<\/p>\n

Many of the people stopping in had been left completely without any water and had no other option for finding any.<\/p>\n

“If I need more, they told me I’m welcome to come back, so this is a saving grace for me,” said Mary Griffin from Scranton.<\/p>\n

“They came out above and beyond for us, and I appreciate it,” said Shantha Jackson from Scranton.<\/p>\n

Water tankers remain at the intersection of Linden Street and North Washington Avenue and at Biden Street and Spruce Avenue for residents to use free of charge.<\/p>\n

A county official says that water services in the area are expected to be restored tomorrow morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A water main break along North Washington Avenue impacted over 700 Scranton residents, leaving many of them in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-253516","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\/253516","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=253516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}