{"id":254779,"date":"2026-07-29T17:43:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T17:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/254779\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T17:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T17:43:11","slug":"riverside-drive-reopened-following-mudslide-in-lower-saucon-bethlehem-area-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/254779\/","title":{"rendered":"Riverside Drive reopened following mudslide in Lower Saucon | Bethlehem Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Riverside Drive mudslide in Lower Saucon Township\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a69c136aaaa2.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Rich Rolen | for WFMZ-TV<\/p>\n<p>L. SAUCON TWP., Pa. \u2013 A road reopened Wednesday after a mudslide during torrential downpours Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The one-way section of Riverside Drive in Lower Saucon Township known as the \u201cNarrows\u201d was closed due to a mudslide from heavy rains.<\/p>\n<p>Video from the scene shows the mudslide covered not only the road but also the train tracks.<\/p>\n<p>Township police say the road reopened around 11:45 a.m. Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Send us your photos or videos: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfmz.com\/community\/upload-photos-videos\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WFMZ.com\/share<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rich Rolen | for WFMZ-TV L. SAUCON TWP., Pa. \u2013 A road reopened Wednesday after a mudslide during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,205,1136,108482,108481,6654],"class_list":["post-254779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-lower-saucon-township","tag-mudslide","tag-narrows","tag-riverside-drive","tag-road-closure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254779","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=254779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}