{"id":72042,"date":"2025-12-28T15:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T15:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/72042\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T15:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T15:12:07","slug":"water-main-break-under-investigation-in-olyphant-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/72042\/","title":{"rendered":"Water main break under investigation in Olyphant, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OLYPHANT, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Crews are responding to a water main break in Olyphant that may be affecting water service and traffic in parts of the borough.<\/p>\n<p>According to PA American Water, the utility is investigating a service issue that could cause low water pressure or temporary outages for some customers. The problem was reported Sunday morning, and crews were dispatched to the area shortly after.<\/p>\n<p>In a social media post, Olyphant Police confirmed a water main break near the intersection of Beech Street and Spruce Street. Police say PA American Water crews are en route and are asking drivers to use caution while traveling through the area as emergency work gets underway.<\/p>\n<p>Officials have not released an estimated number of customers impacted, but residents are encouraged to check the Customer Advisory Map on PA American Water\u2019s website for updates as repairs continue.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>A PA American Water spokesperson told FOX56 that an 8-inch main on 3rd St. is broken and 17 customers are impacted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OLYPHANT, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Crews are responding to a water main break in Olyphant that may be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-72042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-scranton","9":"tag-scranton-headlines","10":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72042","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=72042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}