A large water main break has cut flow to most of the city\u2019s South Side on Monday evening.<\/p>\n
The break was first reported around 5:43 p.m. near the intersection of East Third and Hayes streets, according to Northampton County 911 dispatch.<\/p>\n
According to the city\u2019s Emergency Service Center hotline, the break was affecting a 15-inch water main, with almost all of the South Side experiencing either no water or very low water pressure.<\/p>\n
The Bethlehem Water Authority is working to repair the break, but there was no ETA for repairing the line as of about 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
Bethlehem police are also on scene to direct traffic at the busy intersection, located near Artsquest\u2019s SteelStacks campus and the Wind Creek Bethlehem casino.<\/p>\n
Lehigh University issued a safety alert to its campus community reporting that the campus was impacted by the break.<\/p>\n
The safety alert urged the campus community to use as little water as possible, and turn off any laboratory equipment that requires continuous water pressure, until the break is fixed.<\/p>\n
By 9 p.m., some customers on social media who had lost water service reported getting it back, though others were still experiencing low pressure.<\/p>\n
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A large water main break has cut flow to most of the city\u2019s South Side on Monday evening.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,1994,1391,202,7585,2121,433,182,139,434,28,432],"class_list":["post-319943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-bethlehem-township","tag-bethlehem-area","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-fountain-hill","tag-hanover-township","tag-lehigh-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-northampton-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319943","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=319943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}