MDEQ Lifts Advisory for Station in Long Beach All Stations Open

(JACKSON, Miss.) – The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), through its Beach Monitoring Program, lifted a water contact advisory Saturday for sampling station 7A in Long Beach. There are currently no advisories in effect across the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

The advisory is lifted for:

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

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 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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