{"id":37795,"date":"2025-11-18T18:38:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T18:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/37795\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T18:38:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T18:38:13","slug":"water-main-break-on-lancaster-avenue-in-reading-prompts-boil-water-advisory-for-18th-ward-kenhorst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/37795\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Main Break on Lancaster Avenue in Reading prompts boil water advisory for 18th Ward, Kenhorst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A water main break reported Monday evening has prompted a boil water advisory for parts of Reading\u2019s 18th Ward and Kenhorst Borough.<\/p>\n<p>The break occurred around 6:45 p.m. near the intersection of Grace Street and Lancaster Avenue. Crews responded quickly, working to shut off the water and begin repairs along the 500 block of Lancaster Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.readingareawater.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Reading Area Water Authority<\/a>, the loss of water pressure in the surrounding area triggered a precautionary boil water advisory. A follow-up notice will be issued once testing is complete and the advisory can be lifted.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_7418.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56167\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Repairs were ongoing Monday night as crews worked to restore normal service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A water main break reported Monday evening has prompted a boil water advisory for parts of Reading\u2019s 18th&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-37795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37795","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=37795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}