{"id":533,"date":"2025-10-15T02:10:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T02:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/533\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T02:10:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T02:10:06","slug":"hellertown-lifts-boil-water-advisory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/533\/","title":{"rendered":"Hellertown lifts boil water advisory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents in Hellertown no longer need to boil their water before they drink it.<\/p>\n<p>The borough said Tuesday that the boil water advisory, which went into effect Thursday and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2025\/10\/12\/hellertown-boil-water-advisory-extended-tuesday\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was extended over the weekend,<\/a> has been lifted.<\/p>\n<p>The advisory was issued <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2025\/10\/10\/boil-water-advisory-hellertown\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thursday after a water main break<\/a> was discovered on a golf course in the borough. The break caused a loss of pressure in the system.<\/p>\n<p>Samples were sent to a lab over the weekend to determine if the water was safe to consume. A power outage there made the samples unusable for testing, and the borough had to send new samples.<\/p>\n<p>The borough said in a notification to residents Tuesday that the required sampling and testing by the Department of Environmental Protection was completed, and the advisory was lifted.<\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: October 14, 2025 at 2:26 PM EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents in Hellertown no longer need to boil their water before they drink it. The borough said Tuesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,182,139,432],"class_list":{"0":"post-533","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news","11":"tag-local-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-top-stories-tmc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","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=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}