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Technocar
Continued from Page 1
Bryan citizens fight losing battle against egret
: three-step process in February.
A major feature of the sys
tem is the global-positioning
. system, which identifies the ex-
; act location of the vehicle. This
: information is most important
I when police are filing accident
| reports, he said.
Emergency medical person-
; nel will also be able to use the
i information to get to the scene
; of the accident more quickly.
The officer can receive coor
dinates through the hand-held
f device and information will be
directed to a database. Ana-
; lysts may look at accident
; trends to make suggestions to
improve road conditions.
Wright said work is cur
rently being done on two
1995 Chevrolet Caprice police
cars owned separately by
DPS and the College Station
Police Department.
The idea was first developed
in 1992 by Marlin Crouse, a
principal investigator with TTI,
who headed the first phase of
the project and developed most
of the hardware for the first
prototype, Wright said
Morgan said the work in
phase one was done to prove
the feasibility of the concept
and to show how police de
partments could use this
technology. He said the phase
also provided visibility for
the project, and as a result,
funding was increased.
Technocar 2000 is spon
sored and funded by the Fed
eral Highway and Work Ad
ministration and the Texas
Department of Transporta
tion, Morgan said.
The project currently has
enough funds to last through
1997, he said.
□ The birds come to
nest on Groesbeck
Street each year, despite
efforts made by the city
to keep them away.
By Michael Simmons
The Battalion
“Several people felt the mor
ey would have been better sper
on something involving more d. 1(
the community, like the demc: -—- -
tion of crack houses,” he said.
Bryan Mayor Lonnie Stable
said efforts to relocate the rooktr
could take up to five or six years !
“Efforts to move the birt
have been complicated becar
the birds are protected by fede:
al law,” Stabler said. -n
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Roger Hsieh, The Battalion
These egrets made their home on Groesbeck Street in Bryan. The humans who already live there object to
the smell of their new neighbors and want them to leave.
A flock of migratory birds
have nested in a residential area
on Groesbeck Street in Bryan,
posing an unwanted health risk
to the surrounding community.
Joe Brown, spokesman for the
city of Bryan, said the rookery,
or nesting ground, is occupied by
possibly thousands of egrets.
In an effort to control the
birds, the city of Bryan hired a
contractor to bulldoze more than
19 acres of underbrush, he said.
“The city has spent Si 10,000
to control the flock,” Brown said.
“The money comes from the
city’s demolition fund, which is
normally used to demolish va
cant buildings.”
Brown said the city is limited
on how it can attack the problem.
“You can’t kill the birds,”
Brown said. “So, all we can do is
modify their habitat.”
Several political questions
have been raised concerning
the money spent by the city,
Brown said.
“It is unclear whose responsi
bility it is to handle the problem,”
Brown said. “The city stepped for
ward and went out on its own.”
Brown said Bryan citizens
preferred that the money be
spent elsewhere.
Stabler said he believes the: 1
are fewer birds this year than
previous years and that the dr
has almost solved the problem, five!
“We are close to movingtt; ^
birds out of the city,” he sair
“but they still pose a nuisan: ...
and a possible health hazard'
area residents.” i ip “
Stabler said municipality Sen
are concerned that theynuiexas
abide by federal and stajogy
statutes without receiving fuo;efan
ing to handle the birds. pons
“When a statute is introductie |A<!
in the middle of the year, the: Tht
is no money in the budget:yJt, ei
"The smell from the 0 j^ lc
birds is awful." ersit:
InA
Groesbeck Street mw
help the city,” Stabler said, f ^
Joe Bayer, 76, who has livedi
Groesbeck Street for more tha.r
years, said he feels helpless'
“We have to live here day
and day-out, breathing this ai
he said. “The smell from!
birds is awful.
“It can’t be healthy,” Bay
said. “When the city came to;
up a fence around the birds,
workers all wore chemical sm
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