A woman bought land from PennDOT and built a house, only to find out PennDOT had purchased the land from the previous owner because of a landslide.
Chief Investigator Rick Earle has been digging into how this could have happened for the past few months.
Donna Schwartzbauer purchased the land from PennDOT and built a house, only to find out that PennDOT had purchased the land from the previous owner because of an unstable hillside.
Chief Investigator Rick Earle has been digging into this story for the past several months to find out how this happened.
PennDOT declined to answer Earle’s questions, citing the possibility of pending legal action.
So, Earle tracked down the previous owner and the former PennDOT District Engineer who was in charge of Allegheny County back in the early 90s.
After repeated issues with the hillside sliding behind his home on Connie Drive in Ross Township below Perrysville Avenue just outside the city of Pittsburgh, Robert Joswiak said PennDOT agreed to purchase his house and the land.