BETHEL – Six of seven warrant articles at a special town meeting at 7 tonight pertain to water.

After electing a moderator at Crescent Park School, voters will determine if they should apply surplus money to a construction project to stabilize a section of the Androscoggin River bank beside Riverside Cemetery. The river eroded the bank to within five feet of one of Bethel’s oldest graves.

In Article 2, selectmen and the Budget Committee have recommended taking $180,000 from the undesignated fund balance, the first of three warrant items about the project.

In the third article, officials recommend that voters accept all funds – estimated at 75 percent of the project’s total cost – offered through an agreement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service.

Additionally, the Riverside Cemetery Association Inc. wants to contribute money to the project. In Article 4, selectmen and the committee recommend that voters accept $45,000 from the association to help stabilize the river bank.

The remaining three articles deal with repairing damage incurred by torrential rains on the night of July 11 that caused flooding along North Road. It also destroyed the town’s water supply.

Article 5 asks voters to appropriate more money from surplus to repair damage to Angevine Park and North Road. Officials recommend taking $83,500.

In the sixth article, voters are asked to accept all funds offered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and Maine Emergency Management Agency to reimburse the town for repair costs to the park and North Road. Federal and state shares of eligible costs, respectively, are estimated at 75 percent and 15 percent.

Article 7 asks voters to OK a community development block grant application for the urgent need program for $80,000, and to submit the application to the Department of Economic and Community Development. If the application is approved, voters would then have to authorize municipal officers to accept the money and appropriate it to reimburse the Bethel Water District for costs to maintain water supplies after the July 11 storm.