{"id":223521,"date":"2025-06-11T17:38:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T21:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=223521"},"modified":"2025-06-11T17:38:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T21:38:36","slug":"barron-road-closed-in-floyd-county-due-to-water-main-break-near-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=223521","title":{"rendered":"Barron Road Closed in Floyd County Due to Water Main Break Near Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Residents, brace for delays\u2014Barron Road is shut down near local schools due to a major water main break. This closure could snarl your daily commute or school drop-offs depending on how long it lasts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s Happening:<\/strong> Floyd County Water and Public Works report a significant water main break on Barron Road, requiring extra repairs to cross drains. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The road is expected to stay closed through the weekend as crews work to fix the damage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Details:<\/strong> The closure is on Barron Road between the Model High School football field entrance and the Middle School at the 3-way stop, connecting Calhoun Road and Ward Mountain Road. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drivers are urged to find alternate routes to avoid delays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=46]\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents, brace for delays\u2014Barron Road is shut down near local schools due to a major water main break. This closure could snarl your daily commute or school drop-offs depending on how long it lasts. What&#8217;s Happening: Floyd County Water and Public Works report a significant water main break on Barron Road, requiring extra repairs to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":220207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"behind","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[18185,18186,12763,13576],"class_list":["post-223521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-traffic","tag-barron-road","tag-road-closure","tag-water-main","tag-water-main-break","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=223521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}