MDEQ Lifts Advisories for Three Stations No Stations Under an Advisory

(JACKSON, Miss.) – The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), through its Beach Monitoring Program, lifted water contact advisories Friday for beach sampling stations 7A, 8, and 15. There are currently no stations across the Mississippi Gulf Coast under an advisory.

Advisories are lifted for:

►Station 7A — Long Beach — near Trautman Ave. — from Oak Gardens Ave. east to Girard Ave.

►Station 8 — Gulfport West Beach — from Maria Ave. east to Camp Ave.

►Station 15 — Shearwater Beach (Ocean Springs) — from Weeks Bayou east to Ashley Place.

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@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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