FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Robbie Wilbur
March 10, 2010 601/961-5277
MDEQ ISSUES BEACH ADVISORY
(JACKSON, Miss.) -- The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality
(MDEQ), through its Beach Monitoring Program, is working closely with local
officials to advise residents that the following location in Harrison
County may have high bacteria levels:
● Station 11 ? near Cowan/Lorraine Road in Gulfport -- from Teagarden
Road eastward to Anniston Avenue.
When water samples show that levels are safe for human contact, the
advisory will be lifted.
The Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, which performs water sampling of the
Mississippi Gulf Coast beaches for MDEQ, will notify the agency when the
area has returned to acceptable levels. For more information on the
Mississippi Beach Monitoring Program:
http://www.usm.edu/gcrl/msbeach/index.cgi.
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