Pepco says it doesn’t own the land occupied by a homeless encampment in the Hyattsville area, where residents of the nearby Marylander Condominiums say vagrants have knocked out their heat for the winter.
A Pepco spokesman said the encampment near “high-voltage transmission lines essential to the region’s energy grid” does not fall within the utility’s right-of-way, despite condo owners and county officials saying otherwise.
“While the encampment is not situated on Pepco land, we have increased our vegetation management activities along the right-of-way near the condominiums,” Pepco spokesman Chuck McDade told The Washington Times in an email…