Stagnant water filled with green algae and bugs saturates the backyards and basements of homes on Brackenridge Street in Pittsburgh’s Hill District. It’s causing damage to everything around it.
Neighbors say the water is coming from the hillside right above their houses, home to the University of Pittsburgh’s Petersen Sports Complex and its 12 acres of soccer, baseball and softball fields.
As 11 Investigates Amy Hudak reports, Pitt has a very different explanation for where all that water is coming from, but neighbors aren’t buying it…