MDEQ Lifts Beach Advisory in Pass Christian — No Advisories in Effect Across the Coast

MDEQ Lifts Beach Advisory in Pass Christian
No Advisories in Effect Across the Coast

(JACKSON, Miss.) – The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), through its Beach Monitoring Program, lifted a water contact advisory Friday for Station 6 (Pass Christian Central Beach). There are no advisories in effect across the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

The advisory is lifted for:

• Station 6 — Pass Christian Central Beach — from Henderson Ave. east to Hiern Ave.

Water samples at this station show the area has attained acceptable bacteria levels.

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, and follow MDEQ on Twitter: @MDEQ.