STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
PHIL BRYANT, GOVERNOR
MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
TRUDY D. FISHER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 15, 2012
Contact: Robbie Wilbur
601/961-5277

MDEQ LIFTS WATER CONTACT ADVISORY  IN HANCOCK COUNTY

(JACKSON, Miss.) -- The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), through its Beach Monitoring Program, lifted a water contact advisory issued March 8 for a sampling station in Hancock County.
 
The advisory is lifted for:

Station 4 -- Bay St. Louis Beach near St. Charles Street -- from the box culvert eastward to Ballantine Street.

More information on the Mississippi Beach Monitoring Program:

http://www.usm.edu/gcrl/msbeach/index.cgi.

To receive beach advisories directly, send an email to
rwilbur@deq.state.ms.us for inclusion in a public group email list or follow MDEQ on Twitter at http://twitter.com/#!/MDEQ.
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