MDEQ Lifts Two Beach Advisories

MDEQ Lifts Two Beach Advisories

No Advisories in Effect Across the Mississippi Gulf Coast

(JACKSON, Miss.) – The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), through its Beach Monitoring Program, lifted water contact advisories Thursday for Stations 5 and 12A. There are currently no advisories issued across the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

The advisories are lifted for:

• Station 5 — Pass Christian West Beach — from Fort Henry Ave. east to Elliot St.
• Station 12A — Biloxi West Central Beach — from Travia St. east to Iberville Dr.

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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