{"id":254468,"date":"2026-04-17T17:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/254468\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T17:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:19:09","slug":"after-6-weeks-of-repairs-the-intersection-of-westheimer-parkway-and-south-mason-has-reopened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/254468\/","title":{"rendered":"After 6 weeks of repairs, the intersection of Westheimer Parkway and South Mason has reopened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials estimated that the large underground hole was anywhere from 20 to 25 feet deep.<\/p>\n<p>FORT BEND COUNTY, Texas \u2014 After six weeks of repairs, a busy Houston intersection has reopened.<\/p>\n<p>Southbound Mason Road and westbound Westheimer Parkway had been closed for about six weeks due to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.khou.com\/article\/news\/local\/underground-void-cinco-ranch-westheimer-parkway-mason\/285-62bd04ae-2d0d-468d-9e9c-1affce99ba17\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">massive sinkhole<\/a> that formed.<\/p>\n<p>The issue caused a big problem in the Cinco Ranch community.<\/p>\n<p>Officials estimated that the large underground hole was anywhere from 20 to 25 feet deep.<\/p>\n<p>Crews had to replace 100 feet of wastewater pipe after a large sewer pipe running under the intersection collapsed, washing away soil underneath the roadway and creating a void.<\/p>\n<p>A KHOU 11 camera lowered into the void revealed a cave-like space beneath the pavement.<\/p>\n<p>Got a news tip or story idea? Email us at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.khou.com\/article\/news\/local\/westheimer-parkway-south-mason-sinkhole-void-repairs\/mailto:newstips@khou.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">newstips@khou.com<\/a>\u00a0or call 713-521-4310 and include your name and the best way to reach you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officials estimated that the large underground hole was anywhere from 20 to 25 feet deep. FORT BEND COUNTY,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":{"0":"post-254468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-houston-headlines","10":"tag-houston-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254468","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=254468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}