MDEQ Issues Three Advisories

Seven Other Advisories in Effect

(JACKSON, Miss.) – The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), through its Beach Monitoring Program, issued water contact advisories Wednesday for Stations 5, 7, and 7A. Seven other advisories remain in effect.

Advisories are issued 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 — near Trautman Ave. — from Oak Gardens Ave. east to Girard Ave.

Advisories remain in effect for:

• Station 1 — Lakeshore Beach — near Lakeshore Drive in Bay St. Louis — from the Silver Slipper Casino east to Pointset Ave.
• Station 9 — Gulfport Harbor Beach — from 20th Ave. east to Thornton Ave.
• Station 10 — Gulfport Central Beach — from Alfonso Dr. east to Arkansas Ave.
• Station 10B — East Courthouse Road Beach (Gulfport) — from Courthouse Rd. east to Tegarden Rd.
• Station 11 — Gulfport East Beach — from Tegarden Rd. east to Anniston Ave.
• Station 14 — Front Beach (Ocean Springs) — from the Yacht Club east to Jackson Ave.
• Station 15 — Shearwater Beach (Ocean Springs) — from Weeks Bayou east to Ashley Pl.

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: https://opcgis.deq.state.ms.us/beaches.

To receive beach advisories directly, send an email to Robbie Wilbur for inclusion in a public group email list, text “MDEQbeach” to 95577, or follow MDEQ on Twitter: @MDEQ.

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