GREENVILLE — Town officials are moving ahead with final closure of the old Sawyer Pond dump, estimated to cost $216,862.

Town officials learned that the state Department of Environmental Protection is requiring all of the state’s smaller, lower-priority dumps to be closed. The town, which has been approved for a reduced closing plan that would eliminate the need to drill monitoring wells, would receive 75 percent reimbursement.

Town Manager David Cota said the town would ask Piscataquis County, where unorganized territories used the facility for years, to pay 30 percent of the $54,000 that has to be raised locally to close the facility. He said the town has about $12,000 in reserve to apply toward its share of the costs.

Cota said the estimated cost of the project included the engineering and selection of a site for cover material, sloping and grading, application of cover material and topsoil and two years of very limited water quality monitoring.

Selectmen this week awarded a contract to Civil Engineering Services Inc. of Brewer to do the engineering work at the dump at a cost of $20,686.