BETHEL – A new skate park at Davis Park on Route 26 inched closer to reality on Monday night when selectmen endorsed a concrete design.

Breaking Ground LLC of Cranston, R.I., which offered a $187,000 estimate for a 10,000-square-foot concrete skate park, got the nod with a 5-0 vote, but not without discussion.

Mostly, selectmen were concerned that the town should first learn what’s under the ground in the area where the park would be constructed.

“We need to know if the site is all right,” Selectman Don Bennett said. “There used to be a mill there. There are places where there is 15 feet of sawdust and an old abutment there. There needs to be some way to bore, dig, search, find, or whatever, what is down there … before we dump $100,000 worth of work and money into it.”

Bennett said the location was a dump site for the mill.

“It was a sawdust dumping area there and all the way to and into the (Androscoggin) River,” he added.

According to Breaking Ground’s bid package, without town contribution of labor and materials, its $187,000 estimate would jump to $247,000.

The skate park would be designed for use by skateboards, wheelchairs, inline skates, scooters and bikes.

According to Samuel H. Batterson, Breaking Ground’s owner, the company has professionally designed and installed skateboard parks in New England for seven years. It has also worked in the skatepark and site construction arena for more than 15 years.

“I think this will be a victory if we’re even able to move on it this year,” Town Manager Scott Cole said of the project.