{"id":238026,"date":"2026-04-07T01:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T01:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/238026\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T01:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T01:45:07","slug":"contractor-hits-underground-gas-line-in-southeast-bexar-county-new-sulphur-springs-road-shut-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/238026\/","title":{"rendered":"Contractor hits underground gas line in southeast Bexar County; New Sulphur Springs Road shut down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drivers are encouraged to find alternate routes. <\/p>\n<p>SAN ANTONIO \u2014 The 7500 block of New Sulphur Springs Road, past Loop 1604 in far southeast Bexar County, is shut down as CPS Energy crews respond to a gas line that the utility says was struck by a contractor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That contractor was working for another entity when it accidentally hit the underground line. The Bexar County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said in a Facebook post at 5:41 p.m. that the road was expected to be closed at least through Monday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>CPS Energy said at 8 p.m. that a crew was still onsite and making repairs. Drivers were encouraged to use alternate routes if traveling through the area.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea7 Traffic Alert (8 PM)\ud83d\udea7<\/p>\n<p>CPS Energy crews are on-site making repairs after a non-CPS Energy contractor working on behalf of another entity struck an underground gas line in the 7500 block of New Sulphur Springs.<\/p>\n<p>As a safety precaution, the road has been temporarily closed.\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qGVlNg9IyS\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/qGVlNg9IyS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CPS Energy (@cpsenergy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cpsenergy\/status\/2041325092597117066?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 7, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drivers are encouraged to find alternate routes. SAN ANTONIO \u2014 The 7500 block of New Sulphur Springs Road,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-238026","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-san-antonio","9":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","10":"tag-san-antonio-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}