FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 16, 2010
Contact: Robbie Wilbur
601/961-5277
MDEQ LIFTS JACKSON COUNTY BEACH ADVISORY
(JACKSON, Miss.) -- The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality
(MDEQ), through its Beach Monitoring Program, has lifted an advisory
previously issued for the following station in Jackson County:
● Station 15 ? Shearwater Beach, near Holcomb Avenue, from Weeks Bayou to
Ashley.
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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