Geary County Commissioners have given their approval to a state of Local Disaster Emergency Declaration for the county.

Garry Berges, Geary County Emergency Management Director, said Monday there are no flooding problems in the county right now, but with the amount of rainfall coming in and potential for roads to have problems county officials detemined it was necessary, and the State requested an emergency declaration as a precaution. ” If we get our roads in bad shape, or any type of weather related that we can request state assistance, which in turn will allow us if it’s a FEMA declaration and presidential declaration to recover up to 75-percent of the cost of what we need to do.”

According to a news release issued to the media at the weekly commission meeting, Geary County Public Works Director Dennis Cox informed the commission that many of the gravel roads in the county are in fair condition, but it wouldn’t take much more rain or a runoff to cause damage to the roads.

Public is also monitoring two Geary County owned roads near Milford Lake that could be affected as the lake level rises. They are Houston Road, which is the back road to the city of Milford, and Auld Road which is on the wet side of Milford Lake.