Last week’s three inch rain pounded the area west of Junction City.

The impact on the roads in that area has the attention of Geary County officials, including County Commission Chair Florence Whitebread. “We had gravel gone off of roads out there. We even had blacktop asphalt washed away on Old Highway 40. That takes a tremendous amount of rain to do that.”

Whitebread stated there are ditches full, and it’s taken about three days to do cleanup and repair, and the work continues. She noted culverts are packed full of debris from cornstalks and soybeans. “It’s all in our ditches right now, so they’ve been cleaning it up.”