Adams residents speak against eminent domain usage
ADAMS TWP -- A number of Adams Township residents spoke against an eminent domain acquisition by the Breakneck Creek Regional Authority at the township board of supervisors meeting Monday night.
The authority had previously contacted Adams landowner Frederick “Fritz” Bielo, who owns an 85-acre farm at the intersection of Myoma and Peters roads, to inform him that it would use eminent domain to take a piece of his land measuring 1,200 feet long and 20 feet wide in order to place a sewer line.
According to Tom King, solicitor for the Breakneck Creek Regional Authority, the sewer line, which will service the Franklin Acres development in neighboring Cranberry Township, cannot go around the property due to the geography where the line must be placed.
“Our concern is that Breakneck is taking away part of our property by way of eminent domain,” said Susan Bielo, Fritz’s wife. “We’ve tried to work with them, we’ve offered them some alternatives, but they’ve elected to just take the property.”
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