MDEQ Lifts Water Contact Advisory in Gulfport
No Advisories Across the Coast
(JACKSON, Miss.) — The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), through its Beach Monitoring Program, lifted a water contact advisory in Harrison County on Saturday. There are currently no stations under an advisory across the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
The advisory has been lifted for this station in Gulfport:
►Station 11 – Gulfport East Beach – from Tegarden Road to Anniston Avenue.
Water samples at this station show 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 and the current status of the beach monitoring stations can be found 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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