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LOCK HAVEN -- The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania has affirmed the decision of a county court ruling concerning an ongoing boundary line dispute between Woodward and Dunnstable townships.
Woodward and Dunnstable townships had been locked in a legal battle regarding the municipalities' boundary line for years.
The two townships attempted to settle the dispute through discussion but couldn't come to an agreeable conclusion.
In 2018, the issue was finally taken to county court.
Senior Judge John Leete of Potter County was appointed to the case.
In February 2020, the townships received a notice from the court appointed review board that two of its three members believed Woodward had the correct boundary line.
Dunnstable appealed the decision to the Commonwealth Court shortly thereafter.
After months of going over evidence from both townships, the final decision of the Commonwealth Court was released on Wednesday, affirming the county court's decision that the Kimberly line purported by Woodward Township to be the boundary line "was the true boundary line between the townships and there are no grounds to dispute this determination."
The dispute had been ongoing since 2011 from the result of the county Geographic Information System (GIS) department's updated map in 2009. The update showed a boundary different from what the townships were using.
Woodward believed the boundary caused 517 acres of the township's land to be transferred to Dunnstable.
Through a surveyor, the township determined the line spanned 1,100 feet from the Susquehanna River up Guardlock Drive and Cider Press Road.
Dunnstable believed there was a 285-acre difference of land. A surveyor described their boundary line as beginning at the river on Great Island and leading to a monument on Fargus Island Road. The line then traveled to another monument on Route 664 at Swissdale toward German Road.