The Eldred Township supervisors met Wednesday night and reviewed the storm damage from the remnants of Tropical Storm Isaias that swept through in early August.

Gary Hoffman, chairman of the supervisors, said there was much erosion and undermining of the road edges including Point Phillips Road, Church Road, White Church Road, Shaffer Road, Lobach Lane and Woods Road. The storm also caused the dam at Princess Lake to fail, which is a privately owned lake. The township also saw high water from the Buckwha Creek skim the underside of Stone Arch Bridge.

“I don’t think it was all a direct result of the dam going,” he said. “We just had a lot of water, a lot of water.”

Hoffman said any residents who sustained damage due to the storm can apply for assistance through the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency. They should contact the Monroe County Emergency Management Agency to apply. PEMA can receive funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to assist residents.

Hoffman also said the Monroe County EMA told him that the cost to repair the dam at Princess Lake will be at least $600,000.

“That would not be a grant. That would be a loan,” he said. “And that loan would have to go to that person. The township has nothing to do with that because it’s privately owned.”

In other business, the supervisors are looking for a new work truck, because one of their trucks has a cracked frame. Hoffman said that the township placed a bid for a truck on Municibids for $25,000, but lost out to another bidder who paid about $41,000 for it.

“Somebody else had a lot more money,” he said.

That leaves the township with the option to continue to look for a used truck, lease a new 2021 International truck or replace the frame of the 1996 truck it owns. Replacement would require dismantling the truck and putting it back together on a new frame at a cost of $37,000, Hoffman said.

“I don’t think that’s wise spending,” he said.

Hoffman said he has contacted a man he knows who works for the Delaware Water Gap Toll Bridge Commission about any trucks they may be selling soon.

“A lot of those are in really good shape, but I’ve not heard anything back yet,” he said.

If the supervisors choose the lease, it would be for five years at $32,994 per year. At the end of the lease, they would have the option of turning it back in and getting another one or paying $1 to keep it. Outright, the vehicle costs $154,207.

The supervisors decided to look into the truck frame replacement and make a decision later.