Recent rains have led to the collapse of a portion of a stone wall on Franklin Street near the Geary County Detention Center.

County Commissioner Florence Whitebread said Monday there is stone wall lying out in the sidewalk. She noted due to the substantial amount of rain that has been received the wall collapsed. “We gave our Public Works Director Dennis Cox authorization to proceed to get that wall placed back in position where it was. ”

Whitebread added Public Works was directed to put holes in the wall where water can come through in order to avoid the same problem in the future. “Because this could create the whole bank coming down, with the amount of moisture that we have.”

The stone wall runs in front of the Geary County Courthouse on Eighth Street and circles around north down Franklin past the county jail. The collapsed area is on the Franklin Street side where the wall comes to the detention center.