The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) has awarded Tate County a $40,000 two-year waste tire grant to continue the local waste tire collection program for small quantity generators of waste tires.
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MDEQ Awards Solid Waste Assistance Grant to Coahoma County
The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) awarded Coahoma County a solid waste assistance grant of $42,246 that will be used by the county for a recycling program.
MDEQ Awards Solid Waste Assistance Grant to Washington County
The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) awarded Washington County a solid waste assistance grant of $40,068 that will be used by the county for a local solid waste enforcement officer.
MDEQ Issues Water Contact Advisory in Gulfport
The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), through its Beach Monitoring Program, issued a water contact advisory Saturday for sampling station 10B in Gulfport (East Courthouse Road Beach). Advisories are still in effect for stations 7, 8, and 10.
MDEQ Lifts One Water Contact Advisory in BiloxiThree Other Advisories in Effect
The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), through its Beach Monitoring Program, lifted the water contact advisory Friday for sampling station 11A in Biloxi (Edgewater Beach). Advisories are still in effect for stations 7, 8, and 10.
MDEQ Lifts One Water Contact Advisory and Issues Three
The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), through its Beach Monitoring Program, lifted the water contact advisory Thursday for sampling station 12B (Biloxi East Central Beach). Advisories were issued for stations 7, 8, and 10, and one remains in effect for station 11A.
MDEQ Lifts Water Contact Advisory in Gulfport
The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), through its Beach Monitoring Program, lifted the water contact advisory Friday for sampling station 8 (Gulfport West Beach). Advisories remain in effect for stations 11A and 12B.
MDEQ Lifts Advisory for Bogue Chitto River
The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) lifted a water contact advisory Friday that had been issued September 16 for a segment of the Bogue Chitto River.
MDEQ Lifts Three Water Contact Advisories
The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), through its Beach Monitoring Program, lifted three water contact advisories Wednesday for sampling stations 1, 7, and 10. Advisories remain in effect for stations 8, 11A, and 12B.
MDEQ and MDMR Advise Fishermen and Residents to Avoid Construction Area
The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) and the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources (MDMR) are advising fishermen and local residents to avoid fishing, crabbing, and shrimping activities in and around the construction area of the Hancock County Marsh Living Shoreline project from now until the end of 2016.
