{"id":86371,"date":"2026-04-27T20:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T20:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/86371\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T20:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T20:40:09","slug":"first-alert-traffic-city-of-lebanon-working-to-repair-water-leak-at-highway-intersection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/86371\/","title":{"rendered":"First Alert Traffic: City of Lebanon working to repair water leak at highway intersection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LEBANON, Tenn. (WSMV) &#8211; The City of Lebanon is repairing a long-running water leak at the intersection of Highway 231 North and West Forrest Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Work began after crews found a problem with an aging T-joint connecting a 16-inch water main to an 8-inch water main.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">City officials report that a simple patch wasn\u2019t enough to solve the issue, so a larger repair is underway.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link | text-reset d-block h-100 w-100\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsmv.com\/page\/our-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"WSMV\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1777322409_58_WCZWEBRKNJC6BHZCWR4ZBCEHIA.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"245\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Crews are on site, excavating and preparing for the repair to be completed and the city says the work is expected to take hours. Residents\u2019 water bills will not be affected and the water quality will remain safe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">For questions about water quality after the repair, customers can call Lebanon Utilities at 615-444-0825. The city says updates will be posted on its public services and utilities Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Timeline Of Events:<\/p>\n<p>April 10:\u00a0City identifies the water leak at Hwy 231N and West Forrest Street.Before April 20:\u00a0Officials determine the repair is complicated by the area\u2019s water system and the need to work safely in the middle of the intersection.Night of April 20:\u00a0Planned repair\/outage begins.April 20 excavation:\u00a0Crews find the leak is tied to an aging\u00a0T-joint\u00a0connecting a\u00a016-inch\u00a0and\u00a08-inch\u00a0water main.April 20:\u00a0Repairs are made, but officials determine a simple joint repair is not a permanent fix.April 23:\u00a0The leak resurfaces.After April 23:\u00a0Lebanon Utilities monitors the leak, works on engineering, secures a contractor, and obtains special pipes and fittings.April 27:\u00a0Crews are on site, excavating and preparing for repair; work is expected to take several hours.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 WSMV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEBANON, Tenn. (WSMV) &#8211; The City of Lebanon is repairing a long-running water leak at the intersection of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[93,558,42,1379,30739,3661],"class_list":{"0":"post-86371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lebanon","8":"tag-lebanon","9":"tag-local","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-tennessee","12":"tag-water-leak","13":"tag-wsmv"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116478608990646252","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}