MDEQ Issues Four Beach Advisories
(JACKSON, Miss.) – The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), through its Beach Monitoring Program, issued four water contact advisories Friday for Stations 10B, 11, 14, and 15.
The advisories are issued for:
- Station 10B — East Courthouse Road Beach (Gulfport) — from Courthouse Rd. east to Tegarden Rd.
- Station 11 — Gulfport East Beach — from Tegarden Rd. east to Anniston Ave.
- Station 14 — Front Beach (Ocean Springs) — from the Yacht Club east to Jackson Ave.
- Station 15 — Shearwater Beach (Ocean Springs) — from Weeks Bayou east to Ashley Pl.
Advisories remain in effect for:
- Station 1 — Lakeshore Beach — near Lakeshore Drive in Bay St. Louis — from the Silver Slipper Casino east to Pointset Ave.
- Station 10 — Gulfport Central Beach — from Alfonso Dr. east to Arkansas Ave.
When water samples show that levels are safe for human contact, the advisories will be lifted. Swimmers are reminded that the Beach Task Force has a standing recommendation that swimming not occur during or within 24 hours of a significant rainfall event.
More information about the Mississippi Beach Monitoring Program and the location of beach sampling stations is available at: http://opcgis.deq.state.ms.us/beaches.
To receive beach advisories directly, send an email to rwilbur@mdeq.ms.gov for inclusion in a public group email list, text “MDEQbeach” to 95577, or follow MDEQ on Twitter: @MDEQ.
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