{"id":75348,"date":"2026-01-01T04:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T04:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/75348\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T04:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T04:26:08","slug":"water-main-break-closes-roads-in-whitehall-township-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/75348\/","title":{"rendered":"Water main break closes roads in Whitehall Township | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">WHITEHALL TWP., Pa. \u2013 A water main break in Whitehall closed roads and caused problems on New Year&#8217;s Eve.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Lehigh County communication officials confirm the break was called in on Fifth\u00a0Street (just north of Grape Street) shortly after 9:30 p.m. Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Municipal crews were on scene, with traffic being diverted away from Fifth\u00a0and Grape streets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">The pipe broke in the 900 block of Fifth\u00a0Street, near Grape Street. Salt trucks have been requested in that area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">As of around 10:45 p.m., Fifth\u00a0and Grape streets, as well as Fifth and Jefferson streets, were closed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WHITEHALL TWP., Pa. \u2013 A water main break in Whitehall closed roads and caused problems on New Year&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,18221,1654],"class_list":{"0":"post-75348","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-new-year","12":"tag-whitehall-township"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75348","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=75348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}