Police are searching for a group of women accused of trying to steal from elderly homeowners in Winslow Township, New Jersey.

Police say three women who were inside a white van with Florida tags approached an elderly couple at a home on Pump Branch Road near Route 73 Friday and convinced them that they had met before during previous health care visits.

“A group of about three females, white or Hispanic females,” said Winslow Police Lieutenant Chris Dubler. “They kind of talked their way to come inside the house.”

As two of the women spoke with and distracted the couple, the third woman started going through their house, according to police.

“As the two were talking, one kind of broke free and started meandering around the house a little bit,” Lt. Dubler said. “The husband kind of followed her.”

Police believe the women then left without taking anything. They fear they were trying to steal cash, jewelry or medicine from the home however and are warning residents in the area to be on alert. They also want to hear from any neighbors in the community who saw anything suspicious.

“The three girls were in their 20s or 30s,” Lt. Dubler said. “One had a baseball hat, one had tattoos.”

If you have any information on the incident, please call Winslow Township Police at 609-561-3300.

A man died from his injuries after he fell on the tracks and was then struck by a SEPTA train in Philadelphia Tuesday afternoon.

The 55-year-old man was on the platform of the 13th Street Station and leaned over to look at the oncoming Market-Frankford line train, police said. He then lost his footing, fell on the tracks and was struck and killed by the train. Police have not yet released his identity.

Shuttle buses operated in place of Market-Frankford line trains between 30th Street and Spring Garden stations in both directions due to the incident. Service was later restored on the Market-Frankford Line however trains are still bypassing 13th Street Station. Passengers may experience delays as service returns to normal.

Trolley service in Center City is also bypassing 13th Street Station.

Channabel Latham-Morris still vividly remembers the moment her life changed.

"It was Saturday morning," she said. "Police came to my door."

Latham-Morris soon learned the news. Her only son, 27-year-old Jamal, a Drexel grad, was struck and killed while riding his bike by a hit-and-run driver.

"Last night I'm in the house and I'm just roaring in tears," Latham-Morris said. "I'm saying, 'No, it's Jamal! It's my son that's gone! I'm never going to see him again!'"

Jamal was one of the 11 victims of fatal bicycle-involved crashes in Philadelphia since 2015, according to Philadelphia Police Department records. That is significantly higher than the range of about 2-4 fatal bicycle crashes in prior years.

Our review of crash data comes as the city is experiencing significant growth in bicycle use. Federal census data shows that Philly has the highest percentage of residents biking to work of any major U.S. city.

The NBC10 Investigators examined records for every Philly bike crash since 2014 – more than 1,500 of them.

We discovered crashes spike to an average of more than 80 per month beginning in June. That spike continues through summer and peaks in September, when the average number of bicycle-involved crashes rises to 95.

Most crashes happen in the afternoon and evening hours, rather than morning hours.

We found location patterns, too. Broad Street shows up more often than any other street in crash records: 76 crashes in just two-and-a-half years of reports. Spruce Street had 63 crashes, even with its painted bike lane.

Sarah Clark Stuart, Executive Director of the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia, is focused on one of the leading causes for crashes that turn deadly: speeding drivers.

"Speeding is what causes a third of the fatalities in Philadelphia," she said. "It is one of the most important issues."

Philadelphia Police Captain John Wilczynski, the head of the Philadelphia Police Department's Accident Investigations, agrees that speeding is one of the most common crash concerns.

"Speed is a factor in every crash," he said. "Every crash that we investigate, whether it's auto versus auto, auto versus bicycle. Speed is always a major factor and something we look into."

Stuart and other cycling advocates are now pushing Pennsylvania legislators on a plan to improve safety by targeting those speeding drivers. Advocates want approval to extend the state’s red light camera program, add photo speed enforcement, and allow local police to use radar.

The plan has opponents. Larry Tarr of the National Motorists Association says red light cameras and photo speed enforcement ticket even drivers who try to follow the rules. He also believes giving local police speed radar would distract them from more dangerous problems, like aggressive driving or tailgating.

"It's not about safety at all," Tarr said. "It's about money. If we give them radar they're going to be told, 'Okay, we got the radar. We paid for it. Now go out and use it.'"

Latham-Morris disagrees however and has pledged to take her push for policy change to the highest city and state leaders. She told NBC10 her son's death demonstrates the urgent need for new approaches. The hit-and-run driver who struck and killed him still hasn't been found.

"I'm asking, please come forward," she said. "You cannot bring my son back but you can make a difference in someone else's life."

The city is planning changes intended to improve cyclists' safety, including a redesign of more than a dozen street corridors that would include "protected" bike lanes that are physically separated from vehicle traffic by curbs or parked cars. Advocates acknowledge their full list of safety recommendations would likely require a Streets Department budget twice as large as the current one.

A group of New Jersey high school students narrowly avoided being caught in a dangerous blaze when the bus they were riding to school erupted in flames. 

School bus driver Jose Rodriguez says he sensed trouble with his vehicle as the engine stalled on the road Monday. He quickly pulled over and ordered the students out. Moments later, the bus was engulfed in fire.  

"I said 'Get out, kids, get out,'" Rodriguez said Tuesday. "And within seconds, it took over." 

Rodriguez was driving around 20 students from Paramus High School when the bus started sputtering. With 20 years of experience as a bus driver and a trained mechanic, he didn't hesitate to get the students out in front of East Brook Middle School. 

"I thought it was going to blow up because there was a lot of smoke and it was right where the engine was," said Kyle Kaiser, 16. 

"Someone opened the back door and we started jumping out the back," said Stephanie Kravitz, 15. "It was kind of scary, if we didn't get off in time."

Rodriguez ran out with a fire extinguisher as the students jumped out the rear exit door. Dozens of gallons of diesel fuel added to the fire. 

"I think it could have been really dangerous," Kravitz said. "We are lucky no one got hurt." 

There are 20 grateful families along Rodriguez's bus route three miles north of Paramus High School, thankful that their children made it home safe.

The bus manager said the bus that caught fire was just inspected last week. Rodriguez was happy to be back driving his route — in a different bus — on Tuesday. 

"The kids got to the school safe. I'm not a hero, anyone could have done it," Rodriguez said. 

A weekend graduation party at a house on the edge of Rutgers campus has neighbors riled about behavior better suited for a remake of "Animal House."

Piscataway Mayor Brian Wahler told News 4 New York that the city is looking into the complaints and whether the property owner has allowed numerous rowdy parties at the house.

"I hope they have a very good attorney," the mayor quipped.

Neighbors say the parties are loud and attract large numbers of people. Neighboring lawns are used as restrooms, they said.

"These are outdoor, illegal, open-invitation concerts that are promoted via social media," said John Urbaniak, who lives in the neighborhood.

The mayor noted that as Rutgers grows, more and more homes are being rented to students. And investors see student rentals as lucrative arrangements, he said.

A 27-year-old man is facing charges after allegedly smashing into several cars -- including police cars -- during a wild drive from his grandmother's house in New Jersey to the nearby police station, and back to his grandmother's, police say.

James Wnek, who arrived from Arizona several days ago to stay with his grandmother in Linden, took off in an SUV from her house Tuesday afternoon, immediately crashing into her empty car as he drove off, police said. 

He headed to the police station a few blocks away, entering the garage through the exit and driving the wrong way up the ramp, according to police. 

Wnek smashed into the police garage entrance, and when officers ran out to check out the commotion, he proceeded out of the garage and careened his way back to his grandmother's.

That's where he smashed into a police car stationed outside the house and jumped out of the car, police say and video shows. He jumped across his neighbor's fence and ran through the lawn before finally being apprehended and taken into custody.

That neighbor watched the takedown from his front steps.

"He jumped out of his vehicle, over my fence,' said Pat Cerra. "They all had guns pointed at him, right here." 

Remarkably, no civilian was hurt in the entire ordeal, even as the school nearby had just let out. 

"I'm glad he didn't come down our street because there are a lot of children out playing," said neighbor Deborah Barto. 

Two officers were mildly injured when Wnek deployed pepper spray on them while he was being taken into custody, police said. Three cars were hit, including the police car at the station, a civilian SUV and the police car parked outside the man's grandmother's house. 

A motive wasn't clear, and police couldn't immediately speak to his mental state. 

Wnek's grandmother said he is a "nice boy." 

"Two years, I didn't see him," she said. "He come to see me because I was old and tired and he wanted to see the grandma." 

Wnek is currently being evaluated at a local hospital and will face charges, police said. 

An accident on the road to prom could have spelled disaster for two New Jersey high school seniors, but the two troopers who responded to the scene stepped in to get the boys to the dance in time. 

Edward Fengya and Reno D’Agostini, students at MATES-Ocean County Vocational Technical School, were headed to prom in a car borrowed from Fengya's mom on Friday, May 6 when they got into an accident, according to New Jersey State Police. The car careened off the Garden State Parkway, hit a utility pole and became disabled.

Troopers Chris Jones and Charles Garrison responded to the crash, along with Fegya’s mom. The teens were a bit shaken up, according to the troopers, but neither was injured. 

But they still needed to find a way to get to prom. 

Jones stepped up and offered to take the teens to prom in their trooper car. 

After pulling up to the yacht club on Long Beach Island, Jones walked up to the door with Fengya and D'Agostini and jokingly asked the chaperone, "Hey, do these two belong to you?"

Jones shook the teens’ hands, and the students entered the prom safely and with a new experience to talk about.

New Jersey State Police said the boys' mothers were "quite impressed" with the troopers, and added, "So are we." 

Are Philadelphia Police ready to dance?

The Detroit Police Department called out Philly and some other major city police departments in a Facebook video of the #RunningManChallenge. [[380767681, C]]

"I’m calling out Cincinnati, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, we out of here, join the DPD," says Detroit Chief James Craig toward the end of the video.

The video is the latest in a series of viral videos where officers in uniform -- in Detroit's case dozens of the city's police -- let loose and dance to Ghost Town DJ’s "My Boo." The challenge seems rooted with the University of Maryland’s Men’s Basketball Team, reported USA Today Sports.

And Detroit’s, which also promotes getting a job with the Michigan department has been one of the most successful with nearly 5 million views in less than 48 hours.

And, Detroit Police aren’t the only ones calling out Philly PD as Abington Township Police in Montgomery County also laid down the #RunningManChallenge gauntlet.

Philly PD have yet to reveal if the challenge will be accepted as Sgt. Eric Gripp, Philly Police social and digital media manager simply said, "Disco Stu doesn't advertise."

Tim McNees hobbled into the meeting with hope and a 5-inch stack of medical documents. He left, head hung in disappointment.

McNees, his wife Denise and father-in-law, Pat DiMarco, all came to the U.S. Navy’s open house Tuesday night expecting they’d learn more about water contamination on and around Willow Grove’s Naval Air Station and Warminster’s Naval Air Warfare Center in Montgomery and Bucks counties.

Many who attended the event at Horsham Township Community Center were hoping to learn if their water is really safe to drink and whether a burgeoning number of life-threating health problems among former staff are connected to unregulated chemicals that make up firefighting foam used by the facilities.

Despite one-on-one meetings with environmental, municipal and military experts, plenty of people felt those deputized to assuage their fears either didn't know the answers to their questions or weren't willing to answer them.

"From what I’ve seen so far, a lot of smoke and beam blowing around in there," McNees said.

McNees spent 12 years at Willow Grove as an Aviation Machinist’s Mate working on helicopter engines, transmissions and rotor blades. Since then, he’s had four aneurysms and lost two kidneys to what he called an unknown blood-clotting disorder. After he endured five surgeries, McNees has one new kidney. He’s spent the last six months learning to walk again.

“This is what makes this kinda interesting because I never had any health problems or issues until we were stationed up here for several years,” McNees said, resting on a bench just feet away from the line of people waiting to join hundreds in a noisy, crowded room.

Looking back, McNees wonders if his mystery illness was caused by all the water he drank at "The Grove."

“In the Navy, you either have a cup of coffee in your hand or a bottle of water in your hand, or a cup of water or you know, you fill up your soda cup with water and we drank nonstop.”

Denise McNees is frustrated, stressed and scared.

"This last time I wasn’t sure if he would ever walk again they told us. So, it was a downer. It got to the point where I actually had to go to the doctor and get some help. I just, I couldn’t handle it anymore. It’s very stressful, very stressful,” Denise said. They also raised three sons in Warminster’s military housing and her father, who has lived across the street from the Willow Grove base for 26 years, has cysts on his kidneys.

"I want answers. Real answers. I want you to tell me -- if it is from the water, then say it’s from the water," she said.

The two unregulated chemicals in question are perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS). They were in firefighting foam used at the military facilities and have been linked to cancers and reproductive problems.

Most of us, if tested, would have PFOS/PFOA in our blood, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), because we’ve been exposed through food and manufacturing products from Scotchgard to carpet, clothing, food packaging and flame-retardant furniture materials. PFOS was phased out of production between 2000 and 2002, according to the EPA and PFOA production was virtually eliminated in 2015.

Valerie Colonna Secrease came Tuesday to advocate for herself and other people who worked at Willow Grove and have since developed cancer and other ailments.

"This is what, in the Navy, we would call a cluster," Secrease said, irked and disheartened with the meeting setup, which she felt was too noisy, too crowded and too tough to get straight answers.

"Although, I did have the toxicity expert tell me I should get my blood tested for heavy metal toxicity,' said Secrease whose malignant melanoma was diagnosed in 1997.

Government and military officials shake their heads “No” when asked if fears in the community about drinking water are unfounded. Their messaging at the open house was about what they knew and when they knew it, which evolves into a scientific conversation about emerging knowledge and technologies for water quality.

In simple language, the Navy’s stance is that it didn’t know PFOA/PFOS were dangerous until this century. And once the EPA determined these compounds were suspect, they had no way at that moment in time to detect the chemicals in water. It took researchers years -- until 2012 -- to develop an accurate lab test.

"Water is a very serious issue, people take it very seriously and the Navy, EPA and Pennsylvania DEP as well as the municipal townships that are providing water take it very seriously as well," said Gregory Preston, director of the Navy's base closure program management office. "We believe that the water supply that Warminster Township, Horsham Township and Warrington Township, that they're providing safe drinking water."

Last week, the EPA issued a new, more stringent advisory for PFOA/PFOS levels in drinking water, which prompted the government to offer free bottled water to residents in Horsham, Warminster and Warrington until the public water supplies could be tested.

Congressman Todd Stephens is raising two young children in Horsham. Although results of Horsham’s public water supply tests complied with the EPA’s new levels, his family is sticking to bottled water. Stephens said he’s pushing for blood testing in communities around the base that would measure and track PFOA/PFOS exposure.

Worn down, Tim McNees made his way out of the informational session and waited for his wife to pull the car around.

“It was totally pointless and worthless,” McNees said.

Being sick definitely sucks. So does losing something he loved.

“Honestly, it was the best job I ever had.”

Contact Karen Araiza at 610.420.6714, karen.araiza@nbcuni.com or follow @KarenAraiza on Twitter and Facebook.

A man died after being found suffering from gunshot wounds in the parking lot of an abandoned Philadelphia supermarket.

Philadelphia Police rushed to the former Pathmark site at Wayne and Chelten avenues in the city’s Germantown Avenue just before 2:20 a.m. Wednesday.

“They found a 25-year-old male, he was in a parking lot, he was unconscious, suffering from a gunshot wound to his chest and two graze wounds to the head,” said Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small.

Police rushed the man to Einstein Medical Center where the man died a short time later.

Witnesses on the scene told police the man had been in an argument with a group of men just before gunfire erupted, said police. Investigators found eight shell casings, from two separate weapons and about 50 feet apart, at the scene.

Police took in two men from the scene, which was in the parking lot of a former Pathmark, for questioning and believe at least one could be the shooter. They also focused on a sedan parked in a neighboring Burger King parking lot.

The unidentified 25-year-old gunshot victim also had a gun on him, said police.

Investigators looked at surveillance video from the area, said Small. One of the videos possibly captured the shooting.

A public park drug bust led police to kilos of raw and edible hallucinogens including a brick of drug-laced Fruit Loops in the home of a University of Delaware student.

Newark, Delaware police said they also found dozens of LSD doses inside Dylan Nunn’s apartment along East Main Street.

A State Parks Enforcement officer alerted city police about Nunn after he received a complaint of suspicious activity along Pomeroy Trail within White Clay Creek Park on New London Road on May 8. The officer found 460 grams of edible pot for sale, said police.

Police got a search warrant and on Friday found 62 doses of LSD, 3.5 kilos of raw and edible marijuana products (including gummies) along with drug paraphernalia and several stolen street signs belonging to the city and state parks, said police.

Nunn, who hails from Washington, D.C., was arrested without incident on charges of drug dealing, receiving stolen property and drug possession charges and released on $50,000 bond.

Delaware Online reported that Nunn is a University of Delaware student just days away from graduation.

A university spokesperson confirmed to NBC10 that Nunn is enrolled at the school but didn't answer if he will still graduate this weekend.

One day after a fire caused an early end to the school day, students returned to classes at one of the Philadelphia region’s largest high schools.

Classes resumed at North Penn High School  Valley Forge Road in Lansdale, Pennsylvania Wednesday morning. Students returned to the school at 7:21 a.m. and reported to their sixth-period classes so they could recover items left late Tuesday morning after fire broke out near the band room in the school’s F-Pod section.

Students then began a regular A-Day schedule with some slight changes including the fire-damaged section of the Montgomery County school being blocked off so that crews can continue the lengthy reconstruction of the damaged area, said the school district in a letter posted to its website.

"...In the interim, an odor will likely be detectable," said the district.

Images shot by students showed people calmly leaving the building and waiting outside on some fields as firefighters entered the school shortly before noon Tuesday.

No injuries were reported in the blaze.

The North Penn School District released dismissal guidelines on its Facebook page around 12:45 p.m. as they began sending students home.

The problem for some students was not having their keys with them when they were evacuated. Those items and other personal belongings were recovered Wednesday.

North Penn is known as one of the largest high schools in the area with more than 3,000 students in grades 10 to 12, said U.S. News & World Report.

Anyone who has been to a nightclub knows bouncers are there to keep people safe, check identification and make the evening peaceful. Some bouncers are expanding their duties by keeping an eye out for terror attacks.

Soft targets, like nightclubs, have been hit by terrorists in places around the world. Robert Smith, a nightclub security consultant, is teaching a group of D.C. club bouncers how they can help protect their establishments and the people inside.

The bouncers are taking a 12-hour class over two days to receive National Host Security Certificate training. Smith, a retired 20-year veteran of the San Diego Police Department, said one of the things they look for is a convincing fake identification, usually made in China.

"When a bouncer is checking ID, not many self-respecting terrorists are going to use their own legitimate ID. They will go get a China fake," Smith said, referring to counterfeit ID’s.

Last November, terrorists launched an attack at soft targets in Paris, hitting cafes, restaurants and a music venue. The director of the D.C. Nightlife and Hospitality Association supports the training, hoping it will help keep people safe.

"This training, programs like this, are how we ensure that our member businesses are prepared for any kind of scenario," said director Mark Lee.

The bouncers believe the training will help them serve as another front line in the war on terror.

"You don't want to see anyone [set] down a bag or... those things," said bouncer Vincent Andrews. "It makes me look at it twice."

Smith told the bouncers to take the fake IDs they come across and tell the person to call police in order to get it back.

SEPTA is unveiling a new partnership on Wednesday in hopes to get more people using the rail system in the Philadelphia suburbs and it might surprise people which entity the transit agency is now calling a partner.

SEPTA is teaming up with popular ride-share company Uber to hopefully increase the amount of riders on the Jenkintown-Wyncote Station this upcoming summer. The partnership is the result of research SEPTA is conducting on how ride-sharing companies are affecting public transportation. 

A study by the American Public Transportation Association found that more than 20 percent of riders use a ride-sharing app to connect to public transportation already. SEPTA is hoping the partnership with Uber will increase suburban riders access to Regional Rail.

Details about the partnership are set to be released at a noon news conference at the Jenkintown-Wyncote station. 

The Philly POPS Brass Band joined Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney and other dignitaries as Philadelphia relaunched its historic neighborhood.

The event and ribbon cutting at the Second Bank of the United States along Chestnut Street in Old City late Wednesday morning kicked off the summer tourism season, said organizers. [[380805551, C]]

The POPS and the Mann Center for the Performing Arts are teaming up to present Memorial Salute, a concert honoring the American tradition of service on Saturday. The concert, which is free to active military, vets, Philadelphia police officers, firefighters and their families is a first for The POPS.

NBC10 First Alert Weather chief meteorologist Glenn "Hurricane" Schwartz will serve as emcee for the evening of music.

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In the blue-collar neighborhood of Cheltenham Village, bordering Northeast Philadelphia, Bob Hoffman has owned and rented out a duplex for 30 years.

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. But that’s becoming tougher, with local taxes now above $6,000 on each of their properties.

And that’s before "the sewer issue," as Hoffman called it Tuesday while pruning some front yard bushes at his brother’s property.

"My cousin lived a couple blocks from here on Beecher [Avenue]," Hoffman said. "He went to Chester County and has less taxes. He knew the sewer issue was coming."

Cheltenham 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.

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. 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.

With about 15,000 parcels in the township, inspections will take seven to eight years. The township plans to begin those later this year in Cheltenham Village and Glenside. In early 2017, inspectors will canvas the Wyncote and Melrose Park East sections. The schedule beyond that is not yet known.

The Montgomery County town is part of what state officials believe is a $30 billion infrastructure problem for Pennsylvania. State Rep. Steve McCarter (D-Glenside) said "inner-rim suburbs" -- those bordering metropolitan areas like Philadelphia -- across the state face similarly dire situations.

"Nobody wants to talk about what’s underground and out of site," McCarter said. "But it’s going to cause a lot of consternation and disruption."

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.

A public hearing held last week gathered some 100 property owners, according to Debra Domsky of Woodland Avenue near Tookany Creek.

“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.

“I’m lucky. You see the front of my house. It’s probably six feet from the street to my steps. But look at that home up the street, with the steep, tall wall in front. The homeowner, she’s freaking out. She’s a single mother too. That’s how I would have felt when I was younger, raising my son, barely getting by and trying to make it happen. It would have been devastating. It still is devastating.”

Like many others, Domsky is now grappling with questions about an infrastructure problem 90 years in the making. That’s how old the township said many of the sewer pipes are -- in many cases, made of a material called vitrified clay.

An ordinance to put the inspections in motion is expected to be voted on by the township council June 15, but the extent and history of Cheltenham’s sewer problem were aired in detail at a Public Works Committee meeting earlier this month.

Matt Chrobocinski, a sewer engineer with the firm Boucher & James, told of “the Township’s efforts to date to reduce Inflow & Infiltration (I&I) in the sanitary sewer system, why it needs to reduce I&I, and the importance of adopting a Private Sanitary Sewer Lateral Inspection, Maintenance and Repair ordinance,” according to the minutes of the meeting.

One of the township commissioners then "noted that the Philadelphia Water Department (PWD) and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) are requiring the Township to make significant and costly upgrades to its aging sanitary system in a tight time frame."

Havir, the township manager, said in an interview last week that the sewer I&I problem did not pop up suddenly. Instead, he said, the township has already spent millions over the better half of the last decade to improve system-wide performance.

"This has been in our corrective action plan since 2010," Havir said. "And the DEP is now asking we move this up under high priority. Basically telling us, we’re five years behind schedule."

The first four neighborhoods to be inspected have the worst I&I performance based on rate estimates, he said.

Property owners in Cheltenham Village and Glenside who inspectors find in need of lateral replacements or repair will have 120 days to complete the improvements, according to the proposed ordinance. In the years ahead, repairs in other neighborhoods will have between 60 and 90 days.

McCarter believes those time frames could be adjusted as the township begins to tackle the inspections.

"I think they’ll be some adjustments in terms of time as we go along," he said.

Havir said the township has already begun improvements to the municipal system, but if it does cost another $8 million a year for "work being done in the public right-of-way as well as the inspection work," the township will have to issue bonds to pay for further improvements over the next decade.

"We don’t have that kind of money sitting around in the pot," Havir said.

Havir and other township officials have promised a fervent outreach program to educate property owners in the summer and fall months about the massive, decade-long project. The municipal website already has posted numerous documents as well as the proposed ordinance.

Realtor Roy Hollinger, of Barandon and Hollinger Real Estate in Cheltenham Village, said, “I guess I have to go to one of these (township) meetings coming up.”

His real estate company has been around since 1939, he said, nearly as old as the vitrified clay sewer pipes now in need of replacement.

“Only we’re not as decrepit,” he said.