MDEQ Lifts One Water Contact Advisory and Issues One Advisory

MDEQ Lifts One Water Contact Advisory and Issues One Advisory

(JACKSON, Miss.) — The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), through its Beach Monitoring Program, lifted a water contact advisory for one beach monitoring station in Hancock County on Thursday. Water samples at this station show the area has attained acceptable bacteria levels. In addition, an advisory was issued for Station 7 in Pass Christian. There are currently five stations under an advisory.The advisory has been lifted for:

►Station 2 — Buccaneer State Park Beach — the extent is from 100 yards west of the sign eastward to 100 yards east of the sign.

An advisory is issued for:

►Station 7 — Pass Christian East Beach — from Espy Avenue east to Hayden Avenue.

Advisories still in effect:

►Station 5 — Pass Christian West Beach — from Fort Henry Avenue east to Elliot Street.

►Station 8 — Gulfport West Beach — from Marie Avenue to Camp Avenue.

►Station 10 — Gulfport Central Beach — from Alfonso Drive to Arkansas Avenue.

►Station 10B — East Courthouse Road Beach — from Courthouse Road to Tegarden Road.

More information about the Mississippi Beach Monitoring Program and the status of beach advisories is available at: http://opcgis.deq.state.ms.us/beaches.

To receive beach advisories directly, send an email to rwilbur@deq.state.ms.us for inclusion in a public group email list, text “MDEQbeach” to 95577, or follow MDEQ on Twitter: @MDEQ.

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