{"id":263943,"date":"2026-08-12T13:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T13:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/263943\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T13:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T13:52:10","slug":"flooding-issues-addressed-by-bensalem-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/263943\/","title":{"rendered":"Flooding Issues Addressed By Bensalem Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Township officials are taking some action in working with PennDOT.<\/p>\n<p>The short-term solution includes installing gates to prevent people from driving or walking through the flooded area when heavy rain is expected, for life-safety reasons.<\/p>\n<p>The long-term solution would involve a pump system with a backflow preventer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In a relatively short amount of time, we were already able to get PennDOT to the table and get movement on this issue,&#8221; the councilman said. &#8220;We are going to continue pushing to get these solutions implemented for the safety of Bensalem residents.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Township officials are taking some action in working with PennDOT. The short-term solution includes installing gates to prevent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194],"class_list":["post-263943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bensalem","tag-bensalem","tag-bensalem-headlines","tag-bensalem-news","tag-bensalem-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263943","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=263943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}