{"id":38620,"date":"2025-11-19T14:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T14:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/38620\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T14:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T14:14:09","slug":"major-water-main-break-impacts-thousands-in-reading-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/38620\/","title":{"rendered":"Major water main break impacts thousands 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>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Water main break Lancaster Ave in Reading\" 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\/2025\/11\/691bcc2ce146c.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    WFMZ-TV | Jimmy Raxasena<\/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":38621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,128,130,129,213],"class_list":["post-38620","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\/38620","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=38620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}