{"id":82185,"date":"2026-01-09T08:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T08:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/82185\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T08:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T08:44:07","slug":"bensalem-water-main-break-impacting-water-pressure-in-township","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/82185\/","title":{"rendered":"Bensalem water main break impacting water pressure in township"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A water main break in Bensalem has closed a major road through the township and is causing water pressure issues in homes in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bensalem Police Department reported the water main break around 5:30 p.m. on Jan. 8, alerting residents and motorists that Bensalem Boulevard will be closed to traffic indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Bensalem Boulevard will be closed between Gibson Road and Byberry Road, with only local traffic permitted. This is expected to be a prolonged closure,&#8221; the alert read.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Shortly after residents in the neighborhoods around the closure, and further away in the Neshaminy Valley were reporting low water pressure or no water at all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On the <a href=\"https:\/\/experience.arcgis.com\/experience\/d169ba74df004c838e56baa19cedc974#data_s=id%3AdataSource_2-19320fe5662-layer-13-19320fe57ae-layer-15%3A1834353\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Aqua Pennsylvania website;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Aqua Pennsylvania website<\/a>, the company issued a system pressure advisory, saying a large water main break on Bensalem Boulevard was impacting &#8220;most of the Bensalem area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Once we shut the main down customers should get their pressure back,&#8221; it read.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally appeared on Bucks County Courier Times: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillyburbs.com\/story\/news\/2026\/01\/08\/bensalem-boulevard-water-main-break-leaving-customers-with-low-pressure-no-water-aqua-pa\/88093047007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bensalem water main break leaving customers with low pressure;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Bensalem water main break leaving customers with low pressure<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A water main break in Bensalem has closed a major road through the township and is causing water&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,11229,194,41453,2217,22889],"class_list":["post-82185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bensalem","tag-bensalem","tag-bensalem-headlines","tag-bensalem-news","tag-bensalem-police-department","tag-bensalem-township","tag-low-water-pressure","tag-water-main-break","tag-water-pressure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82185","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=82185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}