{"id":581773,"date":"2026-04-13T14:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T14:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/581773\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T14:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T14:47:09","slug":"downtown-austin-water-main-break-closes-sixth-red-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/581773\/","title":{"rendered":"Downtown Austin water main break closes Sixth, Red River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A section of downtown Austin was closed Monday morning due to a water outage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/apps\/dashboards\/8a124bcb3c65411daeb5f3d549ecd6d3\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Austin Water<\/a>, the city&#8217;s water utility, a water main break was reported on its website at 5:29 a.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred at Red River and Sixth streets. A work crew is on site on 601 Sixth St. to address the outage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sixth and Red River Streets will remain closed, according to Austin Water. The crew is expected to remain on site until at least 11:30 a.m., according to the city&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p>The city has not shared additional details on the outage. See the outage location below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A section of downtown Austin was closed Monday morning due to a water outage.\u00a0 According to Austin Water,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-581773","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581773","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=581773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}