{"id":643697,"date":"2026-05-15T00:53:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T00:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/643697\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T00:53:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T00:53:17","slug":"wallingford-water-main-break-closes-part-of-ward-street-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/643697\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallingford water main break closes part of Ward Street, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WALLINGFORD \u2014 A part of Ward Street is expected to remain closed through Thursday evening as crews work to repair a broken water main, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The break was reported around noon at the intersection of Quinnipiac Street, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/townofwallingford\/posts\/pfbid02UwnjWDLf8AV8yknJwdEtFcdS7MDzA5iUDUqYLqvNWyN26YiNjC1LHMr8Mijcmdfyl\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a Facebook post<\/a> shared by the Town of Wallingford.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officials said Ward Street will remain closed from Quinnipiac Street to Valley Street through the evening, but did not specify when the work is expected to finish.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease plan for detours and allow extra travel time in the area,\u201d officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid034bvLa8sDaAofBfmnx87CtAqPHdsv4L4dMgWo3GVtKz843c4V4YUen6iWK8wygxsQl&amp;id=100087943244396\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wallingford Police Department<\/a> said the repair work is taking place in front of Sara J&#8217;s restaurant and that vehicles are being detoured from the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WALLINGFORD \u2014 A part of Ward Street is expected to remain closed through Thursday evening as crews work&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,114238,3,277892,452,453],"class_list":["post-643697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-new-haven-register","tag-news","tag-record-journal","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643697","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=643697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}