FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 17, 2012
Contact: Robbie Wilbur
601/961-5277
MDEQ Lifts Beach Closure in Gulfport
(Jackson, Miss.) – The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), through its Beach Monitoring Program, Saturday lifted a precautionary beach closure issued November 14 for a section of beach in Gulfport.
The closure stretched from Teagarden Road on the west to the old VA property on the east. This segment included Beach Sampling Station 10A which is the Courthouse Road Beach near the Courthouse Road west parking lot.
This precautionary closure was issued due to a sewage discharge from the City of Gulfport collection system. Samples taken by MDEQ indicate no contamination.
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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