FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 5, 2010
Contact: Robbie Wilbur
601/961-5277
MDEQ LIFTS BEACH ADVISORY
(JACKSON, Miss.) -- The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality
(MDEQ), through its Beach Monitoring Program, has lifted an advisory
previously issued December 12, 2009, for the following station:
●Station 10A - near Courthouse Road in Gulfport.
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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