MDEQ Lifts Beach Advisory in Pascagoula No Advisories Across the Coast

MDEQ Lifts Beach Advisory in Pascagoula

No Advisories Across the Coast

(Jackson, Miss.) – The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), through its Beach Monitoring Program, lifted a water contact advisory Friday for Station 20 (Pascagoula Beach East). Water samples at this station show the area has attained acceptable bacteria levels. There are no beach advisories in effect across the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

The advisory is lifted for:

• Station 20 — Pascagoula Beach East – from Westwood to Grand Oaks Dr.

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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