{"id":6769,"date":"2014-05-28T16:38:08","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T23:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/meeker-middle-school-in-kent-district-to-reopen-thursday-update\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T07:40:32","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T14:40:32","slug":"meeker-middle-school-in-kent-district-to-reopen-thursday-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/meeker-middle-school-in-kent-district-to-reopen-thursday-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeker Middle School in Kent district to reopen Thursday | Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Meeker Middle School in the Kent School District will be open on Thursday, May 29 after problems with a sewer system closed the school on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Locker rooms will remain closed until all environmental cleanup and safety inspections have been completed, which is anticipated to take 24 to 48 hours, according to a school district media release.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Meeker is at 12600 S.E. 192nd St., in Renton.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Soos Creek Water and Sewer District fixed the problem. A sewer line running through a nearby park had become clogged causing a sewage back-up into the\u00a0 school, according to school district spokesman Chris Loftis.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&#8220;The water company and clean-up crews are cleaning all impacted surfaces,&#8221; Loftis said. &#8220;Safety is our number one priority and our environmental safety team will make sure all areas are clean and safe before use.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Meeker&#8217;s track and field meet postponed on Wednesday will take place on Thursday at Kentwood High School.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&#8220;Thank you for your patience during today\u2019s schedule disruption and we look forward to seeing all of our students tomorrow,&#8221; Loftis said.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meeker Middle School in the Kent School District will be open on Thursday, May 29 after problems with a sewer system closed the school on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-6769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6769"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6769"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}