MDEQ Lifts Beach Advisory in Hancock County-No Advisories in Effect Across Mississippi Gulf Coast

MDEQ Lifts Beach Advisory in Hancock County-No Advisories in Effect Across Mississippi Gulf Coast

(JACKSON, Miss.) – The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), through its Beach Monitoring Program, lifted a water contact advisory Thursday for Station 1 (Lakeshore Beach) in Hancock County. There are no advisories currently in effect across the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

The advisory is lifted for:

• Station 1 — Lakeshore Beach — near Lakeshore Drive in Bay St. Louis — from the Silver Slipper Casino east to Pointset Ave.

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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