![]() It’s probably six feet from the street to my steps. “How did it go from the EPA to the state DEP to the township and now into the homeowners’ laps?” she asked, sitting in the yard of the two-story attached house she bought 18 years ago. Homeowners have taken to Facebook in recent weeks to begin venting their frustration - and with hopes that a solution can be found to alleviate the four- and five-figure cost of full sewer lateral replacements.Ī public hearing held last week gathered some 100 property owners, according to Debra Domsky of Woodland Avenue near Tookany Creek. The schedule beyond that is not yet known.īob Hoffman doing some landscaping at his brother's Ryers Avenue duplex, Tuesday, May 24, 2016. In early 2017, inspectors will canvas the Wyncote and Melrose Park East sections. ![]() The township plans to begin those later this year in Cheltenham Village and Glenside. With about 15,000 parcels in the township, inspections will take seven to eight years. ![]() ![]() Township Manager Bryan Havir said last week that the number of property owners who will have to replace their laterals will not be known until inspectors begin going door-to-door later this year. That doesn’t include the cost many individual property owners will have to pay up to $10,000, depending on lot size, to replace their sewer line laterals - the pipe that connects homes to the municipal sewer system. He knew the sewer issue was coming."Ĭheltenham Township, one of Philadelphia’s largest and most diverse suburbs, is about to embark on a 10-year sewer improvement project that the township’s top official estimates could cost up to $80 million, or about $8 million a year. "He went to Chester County and has less taxes. "My cousin lived a couple blocks from here on Beecher ," Hoffman said. But that’s becoming tougher, with local taxes now above $6,000 on each of their properties.Īnd that’s before "the sewer issue," as Hoffman called it Tuesday while pruning some front yard bushes at his brother’s property. No longer burdened by a mortgage, Hoffman and his brother, who owns and rents out another duplex on Ryers Avenue, are able to keep rents low for their tenants. ![]() In the blue-collar neighborhood of Cheltenham Village, bordering Northeast Philadelphia, Bob Hoffman has owned and rented out a duplex for 30 years. ![]()
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