MDEQ Issues Advisory for Station 19 (Pascagoula Beach West) Station 15 Remains Closed

(JACKSON, Miss.) – The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), through its Beach Monitoring Program, issued a water contact advisory Saturday for Station 19 (Pascagoula Beach West). A closure remains in effect for Station 15 (Shearwater Beach in Ocean Springs).

An advisory is issued for:

•Station 19 — Pascagoula Beach West — from Oliver St. east to Westwood St. When water samples show that levels are safe for human contact, the advisory and the closure will be lifted. 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, or follow MDEQ on Twitter: @MDEQ.

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