MDEQ Lifts Advisory for Station 10B in Gulfport
Six Others in Effect
(JACKSON, Miss.) – The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), through its Beach Monitoring Program, lifted a water contact advisory Wednesday for Station 10B in Gulfport (East Courthouse Road Beach). Six other stations are under advisory.
The advisory is lifted for:
- Station 10B — East Courthouse Road Beach in Gulfport — from Courthouse Rd. east to Tegarden.
Advisories remain in effect for:
- Station 5 — Pass Christian West Beach — from Fort Henry Ave. east to Elliot St.
- Station 7 — Pass Christian East Beach — from Espy Ave. east to Hayden Ave.
- Station 7A — Long Beach — from Oak Gardens Ave. east to Girard Ave.
- Station 10 — Gulfport Central Beach — from Alfonso Dr. east to Arkansas Ave.
- Station 11 — Gulfport East Beach — from Tegarden east to Anniston Ave.
- Station 11A — Edgewater Beach in Biloxi — from Debuys Rd. east to Edgewater Ave.
When water samples show that levels are safe for human contact, the advisories 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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