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WILTON — The Board of Selectmen recently agreed to look at potential repairs on retention walls around Wilson Lake.

Erosion has caused damaged a wall at the foot of the lake and one at Kineowatha Park, Town Manager Rhonda Irish told the board.

There’s also a stream wall across from the hardware store that needs work, Selectman Terry Brann suggested.

An engineering study was done a few years ago, Irish said. There’s a “hodgepodge” of stuff on it but no plan was created, she added.

Irish agreed to research and pull together what information the town has on the walls and water erosion. It was brought up at last year’s town meeting, she said.

“We can’t defer looking at it forever,” Selectman Tiffany Maiuri said. She mentioned a riprap solution used at a pond in Richmond using Community Development Block Grant funds.

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Chairman Scott Taylor suggested the scope of the work should center on just a couple areas at first and the board should do a walk around the areas of concern.

Dan Sabatino of Ransom Environmental, who attended the meeting to discuss the tannery cleanup, had walked around some areas prior to the meeting, he said. He offered some free advice from an engineer at his firm.

In other business, the board unanimously approved low bidder Snowman Group of Hermon to print 550 copies of the Annual Town Report at a cost of $1,130.37.

Other bidders included Skowhegan Press for $1,370 and Printing Warehouse of Wilton for $1,567.50.

The board also approved a Federal Emergency Management Agency resolution requesting recognition of damage from the past winter’s ice storms. It asks for ice storm consideration in future disasters and for ice storm inclusion in their general disaster policy, Irish said.

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