{"id":399519,"date":"2026-08-06T19:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T19:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/399519\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T19:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T19:10:08","slug":"610-south-loop-blocked-off-due-to-oil-spill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/399519\/","title":{"rendered":"610 South Loop blocked off due to oil spill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; An hours-long shutdown is expected on I-610 in southeast Houston due to a reported oil spill on the highway.<\/p>\n<p> Houston 610 traffic: South Loop oil spill   <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/houstontranstar\/status\/2085407394922668343?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The spill is reported<\/a> in the eastbound lanes of I-610 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Broad+St+%26+S+Loop+E,+Houston,+TX+77087\/@29.6988866,-95.3169409,15.25z\/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x8640be09d3bef0e7:0x3de41a7dbfcb4e45!8m2!3d29.697465!4d-95.3106715!16s%2Fg%2F11gds_rf41?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDgwMy4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">near Broad Street<\/a>. Drivers are being directed toward the exit.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">First responders and a hazmat are on the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TxDOTHouston\/status\/2085432624697258248?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">TxDOT shared<\/a> at around 1:30 p.m. that the cleanup is expected to take &#8220;multiple hours.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">There is no information regarding what caused the oil spill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Houston TranStar and TxDOT Houston<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/traffic\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Traffic<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\/gulfgate\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gulfgate<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; An hours-long shutdown is expected on I-610 in southeast Houston due to a reported oil spill&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[92401,56,58,57,223,272,216,393],"class_list":["post-399519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-gulfgate","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-news","tag-traffic","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399519","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=399519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}