{"id":568904,"date":"2026-04-07T01:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T01:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/568904\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T01:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T01:30:13","slug":"major-water-main-break-in-downtown-boston-boston-25-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/568904\/","title":{"rendered":"Major water main break in Downtown Boston \u2013 Boston 25 News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 fcApnw body-paragraph\">BOSTON \u2014 Crews responded to a major water main break in Downtown Boston on Monday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 fcApnw body-paragraph\">The 12-inch water main burst happened on Washington Street at Kneeland Street. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 fcApnw body-paragraph\">Authorities asked the public to avoid the area as the surrounding streets were closed, and to seek an alternative route.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 fcApnw body-paragraph\">A spokesperson for Tufts Medical Center said some of their health science buildings were closed temporarily while crews were working on the break, but they expect to have operations back to normal in the morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 fcApnw body-paragraph\">This is a developing story. Check back for updates as more information becomes available. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 fcApnw body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boston25news.com\/news\/local\/have-new-device-get-our-free-boston-25-news-weather-apps\/PDC6X7UKOFDBVPV5YJHG3CX36I\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE Boston 25 News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 fcApnw body-paragraph\">Follow Boston 25 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Boston25News\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/boston25\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boston25news.com\/video\/live-stream\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Watch Boston 25 News NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 fcApnw body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOSTON \u2014 Crews responded to a major water main break in Downtown Boston on Monday afternoon. The 12-inch&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8731,91959,4,30093,450,33772,251119,451,2001,3,77932,452,453,282,29485,18408],"class_list":{"0":"post-568904","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-boston","9":"tag-boston-25-news","10":"tag-breaking-news","11":"tag-breaking-story","12":"tag-breakingnews","13":"tag-closed","14":"tag-downtown-boston","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-massachusetts","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-streets","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-topstories","21":"tag-water","22":"tag-water-main","23":"tag-water-main-break"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568904","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=568904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}