Collapsed retaining wall leads to questions about $320,000 football field

FAIRFIELD COUNTY, SC (WIS) -

Fairfield County taxpayers are demanding answers after finding out the county spent more than $300,000 on a football field. Over the weekend, a $40,000 retaining wall at the field crumbled to the ground.

The county finished construction four months ago, but the field still isn't finished.

The people we spoke with say they don't want another dime spent on this project and want those responsible for spending the money on the field to explain why Fairfield County needed it.

"I bet I told 50 people that wall was coming down," said former Fairfield County Councilman William Turner.

"What just ticks me off, I'm a taxpayer in this county and I just see y'all wave your arms and just -- I'm taking a $4,000 check down there today to pay taxes and see it wasted like this? That's what just disturbs me," said Fairfield County citizen Clyde Wade.

Fairfield County Administrator Milton Pope got a dressing down when he showed up to inspect the wall collapse at the county park Monday morning.

A huge section of a cinder block retaining wall fell over and took with it a fence taxpayers spent more than $40,000 to put up.

Pope gave his workers his initial assessment as soon as he walked up:

"Unless they didn't follow the plans right, it's built right," said Pope. "It just didn't give it, the wall, the time to pack before it got all that water in it.

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Collapsed retaining wall leads to questions about $320,000 football field