MDEQ Awards Waste Tire Grant to Washington County


The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) has awarded Washington County a $115,000 two-year waste tire grant to continue the local waste tire collection program for small quantity generators of waste tires. 

MDEQ Lifts One Water Contact Advisory and Issues One Eight Other Advisories in Effect


The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), through its Beach Monitoring Program, lifted a water contact advisory Tuesday for sampling station 10B – East Courthouse Road Beach in Gulfport. The agency also issued an additional advisory for station 4 in Bay St. Louis. Advisories remain in effect for stations 1, 5, 7, 7A, 11, 11A, 14, and 15.