{"id":868173,"date":"2026-10-02T11:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T11:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/868173\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T11:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T11:14:11","slug":"water-main-break-floods-streets-in-bostons-financial-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/868173\/","title":{"rendered":"Water main break floods streets in Boston&#8217;s Financial District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Water main break floods streets in Boston&#8217;s Financial District<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcvb.com\/news-team\/1630300b-507e-4951-a410-c0414c094101\" aria-label=\"Peter Eliopoulos profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1630300b-507e-4951-a410-c0414c094101_1579056724.jpg\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Peter Eliopoulos\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>BOSTON \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">A water main break flooded streets in Boston&#8217;s Financial District late Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The Boston Water and Sewer Commission said the 16-inch main broke just before midnight in the area at Purchase and Summer streets. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Purchase street is closed between Congress and Summer streets. The offramp from Interstate 93 southbound for the South Station\/Mass Pike exit is closed. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Officials said the break is not impacting water service in the area.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">The cause of the break remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">WCVB will have more information when it becomes available. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Water main break floods streets in Boston&#8217;s Financial District BOSTON \u2014 A water main break flooded streets in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":868174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14854,8731,4,450,37431,366158,366156,366157,451,6270,2001,43451,46931,3,452,453,2987,18408,28123],"class_list":["post-868173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-area","tag-boston","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-cause","tag-federal-st-streets","tag-federal-street","tag-financial-district","tag-headlines","tag-investigation","tag-massachusetts","tag-midnight","tag-more-information","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-traffic","tag-water-main-break","tag-wcvb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868173","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=868173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}