FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 6, 2010
Contact: Robbie Wilbur
601/961-5277
MDEQ LIFTS BEACH ADVISORY FOR ONE STATION IN JACKSON COUNTY
(JACKSON, Miss.) -- The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), through its Beach Monitoring Program, has lifted an advisory previously issued April 30 for the following station:
●Station 14 in Ocean Springs located at Front Beach near Martin Avenue (from the Yacht Club on the west end to Jackson Avenue on the east end).
Water samples show the area has attained acceptable bacteria levels. The Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, which performs water sampling of the Mississippi Gulf Coast beaches for MDEQ, notifies the agency when an area returns to acceptable levels and safe conditions.
Information on the Mississippi Beach Monitoring Program is available at: http://www.usm.edu/gcrl/msbeach/index.cgi.
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Mr. Robbie Wilbur
Communications Director
Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality
Post Office Box 2261
Jackson, Mississippi 39225
601/961-5277
601/421-5699 (c)
601/961-5715 (f)
robbie_wilbur@deq.state.ms.us
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