TUPPER LAKE — The Tupper Lake Town Board is set to hold a special meeting at 2 p.m. today at the town hall to receive an update on the Setting Pole Dam.

The dam controls the water level of Raquette Pond, Big Tupper Lake and Lake Simond. Those formed from damming the Raquette River, which flows from Long Lake to the south and the High Peaks Wilderness in the east. The Raquette River then flows north from Tupper Lake, eventually draining into the St. Lawrence River near Akwesasne. The Setting Pole Dam’s access road is off of state Route 3 heading west from Tupper Lake toward Piercefield.

The town hired LaBella Associates, D.P.C. — a Rochester-based engineering and construction firm with several other offices throughout the state — to draw up plans for improving the dam’s aging infrastructure. Last fall, the water levels there were lowered to better allow engineers to photograph and study portions of the dam that are typically submerged.

The firm will present some of its recent findings at today’s meeting and update the board on what could be next for the project, according to town Councilman Tim Larkin, who is overseeing the Setting Pole Dam improvements.

“They’re going to come and explain to us what our next steps are,” he said.

There will be an opportunity for public comment at today’s meeting following the engineering firm’s update.