MDEQ Lifts Beach Closure for Station 10 (Gulfport Central Beach

(JACKSON, Miss.) – The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), through its Beach Monitoring Program, lifted the closure Wednesday for Station 10 (Gulfport Central Beach). All other closures have been lifted except for Station 15 (Shearwater Beach in Ocean Springs).

The closure is lifted for:

•Station 10 — Gulfport Central Beach — from Alfonso Dr. to Arkansas Ave.

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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