Geary County Commissioners have extended an emergency declaration for seven days that could allow the County to receive assistance from the state or other counties if necessary, in the recovery from the recent water crisis. Geary County Emergency Management Director Garry Berges cited an example. "For some reason the boil ( water ) order isn't lifted and we need to get some more water or something else in, we've got that already in place."
Berges noted that because an emergency declaration was in place last week during the water crisis about 100 pallets of bottled water were donated without any cost locally.