POMFRET — The Selectboard plans to request emergency assistance funding through the Vermont Agency of Transportation after a landslide triggered by last week’s rain temporarily closed a portion of Pomfret Road and reduced a portion of another street to one lane.

About 120 feet of embankment above Pomfret Road just north of the North Pomfret Post Office collapsed sometime before 9:30 Saturday morning bringing rock, dirt and tree debris across the road, Pomfret Selectboard Chairman Benjamin Brickner said Tuesday. The material spread across the road and downhill into Mill Brook.

Pomfret Road reopened Monday afternoon, but the collapse also brought down a portion of Caper Street above the embankment, which was still down to one lane Tuesday afternoon.

The collapse also downed power lines. Sixty-two Green Mountain Power customers were affected and power was out for about 3½ hours Saturday, a GMP spokesperson said Tuesday.

The damage came following a period of prolonged rain. Nearly 2.5 inches of rain fell in North Pomfret in the week between May 3 and 10, according to the National Weather Service.

The Selectboard planned to review engineering and construction proposals to repair Pomfret Road at a special meeting Tuesday night.

The damage does not qualify for assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency because it did not happen as part of a federally declared disaster. To qualify for state funding, which the town plans to seek, the repair cost has to be greater than 10% of the town’s total non-winter highway budget, according to state statute.

Though he declined to share preliminary estimates for the cost of repairs, Brickner said that he expects the repairs to exceed that threshold, which in Pomfret is about $36,600, by “quite a bit.”

Clare Shanahan can be reached at cshanahan@vnews.com or 603-727-3216.