A local college student is helping Leflore County mark the locations of flow capacities of hydrants using GPS technology, according to The Greenwood Commonwealth.
Delta State University student Brice Fulgham was recently approved by the county's board of supervisors to move forward with his capstone project.
"When we give municipal aid calls, we have a lot of problems locating hydrants," Fulgham told the board, according to the report. "What I’m proposing I'd do is go out to every (part of the) county -- not just in the city limits, but the county -- and mark fire hydrants and landing zones for each township."
He was seeking only compensation for his mileage costs and board members agreed that having the work done by a private entity would be expensive.
The project will include the mapping of the coordinates of hydrants and flow rate data will be presumed from a color-coordinated system already implemented on the caps of the hydrants.
The data will be available to access on a laptop computer that could pinpoint the closest and most convenient hydrants or landing zones to use in emergency situations, according to the report.
