{"id":208252,"date":"2025-10-08T04:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T04:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/208252\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T04:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T04:42:08","slug":"sewage-backup-cancels-classes-activities-at-portland-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/208252\/","title":{"rendered":"Sewage Backup Cancels Classes, Activities At Portland High"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORTLAND, CT \u2014 Portland High School experienced a \u201csignificant\u201d sewage backup on the first floor on Tuesday afternoon, school officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The backup caused a foul odor throughout the school complex, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/portlandct712\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an announcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The school district dismissed students early and cancelled after-school activities.<\/p>\n<p>The Board of Education had been slated to meet tonight, but this was also cancelled, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur facilities team is working closely with the sewer department and outside contractors to address the issue and thoroughly sanitize the building,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/portlandct712\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the announcement<\/a> said. <\/p>\n<p>Administrators are hopeful the school will be able to reopen on Wednesday, but the damages and the remediation timeline were still being assessed as of Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>As more information becomes available, the district will contact the school community and post updates on its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/portlandct712\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND, CT \u2014 Portland High School experienced a \u201csignificant\u201d sewage backup on the first floor on Tuesday afternoon,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":{"0":"post-208252","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}