MDEQ Lifts Water Contact Advisory for Station 15 in Jackson County

MDEQ Lifts Water Contact Advisory for Station 15 in Jackson County

(JACKSON, Miss.) — The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), through its Beach Monitoring Program, lifted a water contact advisory Wednesday for the following beach monitoring station:

●Station 15 – Shearwater Beach – from Weeks Bayou to Ashley Place in Ocean Springs.

Water samples at this station shows the area has attained acceptable bacteria levels. The Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, which performs water sampling of the Mississippi Gulf Coast beaches for MDEQ, notifies the agency when an area returns to acceptable levels and safe conditions.

More information on the Mississippi Beach Monitoring Program is available at: http://www.usm.edu/gcrl/msbeach/index.cgi.

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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