{"id":37121,"date":"2025-11-18T01:46:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T01:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/37121\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T01:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T01:46:10","slug":"crews-work-to-repair-major-water-main-break-in-reading-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/37121\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews work to repair major water main break in Reading | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8212; A major water main break is disrupting service for thousands of customers in Reading on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>The break sent water gushing down Lancaster Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>About 8,000 homes and businesses had low or no water pressure, according to the\u00a0Reading Area Water Authority.<\/p>\n<p>Crews were working to shut down the water supply, at which time service was expected to resume for some customers. Those in the 100-500 blocks of Lancaster Ave. should expect service disruptions until repairs are made.<\/p>\n<p>RAWA crews will be working through the night to make repairs.<\/p>\n<p>There were lane restrictions in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8212; A major water main break is disrupting service for thousands of customers in Reading on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,128,130,129,213],"class_list":["post-37121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37121","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=37121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}