ORRINGTON – Residents had no problem deciding to spend town money on a dam, change an ordinance and accept a subdivision street as a town road at Monday’s special town meeting.

“It went very well,” Town Manager Carl Young said Tuesday.

The three warrant articles passed easily, but the 43 people attending did have a question or two.

“Most of the questions were regarding the necessity to replace the dam,” Young said.

Replacing the deteriorating Meadow Dam would cost Orrington about $189,000, but by adding a fish passageway, the community could qualify for a significant amount of federal funding, biologist Steve Shepard of Aquatic Science Association Inc. of Brewer told residents.

Alewives and Atlantic salmon are two types of fish that would make the trip up the Sedgeunkedunk Stream if the Mill Dam in Brewer and Meadow Dam in Orrington were changed to allow upstream travel, according to local biologists.

Once residents had their answers, they easily approved the following measures:

. Spending $25,000 in undesignated funds to match grant funds for the engineering and possible replacement of the corroding Meadow Dam with a new rock ramp fishway. The town has applied for two $50,000 grants.

. Accepting Stone Wall Drive, located off River Road in the Snow’s Farm Estates subdivision, as a town road.

. Revising the town’s public-area ordinance to address issues involving use of town-owned or town-maintained lands.

Provisions of the revised public-area ordinance also set new operation dates for the Route 15 picnic area, now open annually between Memorial Day and Oct. 31, and new wording to specifically state the town wants to be a good neighbor and “not create a nuisance.”

The residents of Snow’s Farm Estates subdivision also made a generous offer, Young said.

“Stone Wall Drive residents are paying for the special town meeting, except for the ad in the Bangor Daily News,” he said. “That was nice of them.”

During the regular selectmen’s meeting, held after the special town meeting, the panel:

. Hired D&H Construction to plow, salt and sand Stone Wall Drive for the remainder of the winter at a cost of $2,000.

. Heard that two architects, one from Bangor and one from Portland, have volunteered to look at the town hall and offer estimates to renovate the building. The two will visit the town later this month.

. Received notice that the town is close to finishing an expansion project at Oak Hill Cemetery, and the town is expected to have lots for sale in the spring.