WILTON – Whatever is done with the Frog Pond Dam – repair, rehabilitate or remove – it will be costly, Town Administrator Nick Germain told the Select Board at their regular meeting on Monday, July 25. An engineering inspection report has been received and Germain would like to have the state Dam Bureau look at the dam and discuss it.

It has been determined a second spillway isn’t needed, Chairman Kermit Williams said, “but there should be some less expensive way for a release” during a “100-year or 500-year flood event. The water isn’t supposed to come within a in inch of the top.”

Germain said the town’s dam monitor visits regularly.

There may be some sediment issues with run-off, which could be from the development on the Milford side, and they will be contacted.

The state has said the dam is in need of repair and has been under discussion for several years.

The Frog Pond was constructed in the 1920s as a water source for the mill in Pine Valley. It is now a town-owned recreation/conservation area. It is open to the public and accessible from both White Hill Road and Maple Street.

In other business, resident Shane Carigann asked that the town change the name of a private road, Commerce Drive, to Fairview Drive.

He said he can’t use the address. The road is off the Greenville Road (31 South).

Selectmen said the name was included in a subdivision about ten years ago but apparently never registered with E911. The Planning Board accepted the name but the Selectmen never approved it.

Corigann said he owns the who area and no one else lives on it.

Asked if there were any similar names in town, Fire Chief Don Nourse said, “Fairfield,” which off Isaac Frye.

The selectmen agreed to the change.

The selectmen decided to “move ahead with work” on King Brook Road Bridger. It is a DOT project and has been on their list for years through several changes of project managers.

They also decided use federal funding and other money to continue engineering work on the Old County Farm Bridge. It will be several years before the state would get to it, “and the costs will just go up,” Williams said. “Let’s go ahead and do it.”

It was reported that the state has ordered the Pony Truss Bridge, located off Route 101 be closed to pedestrians. The bridge has been closed to vehicles for some years. It is one of very few such bridges in the country.

Williams said the U.N.H. intern working on storm water management plans to build “rain gardens” along some downtown buildings to control run-off and is looking for assistance. Contact the town office if interested.