FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 30, 2010
Contact: Robbie Wilbur
601/961-5277
MDEQ ISSUES BEACH ADVISORY FOR ONE LOCATION IN JACKSON COUNTY
(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 may have high bacteria levels:
● Station 14 in Ocean Springs located at Front Beach near Martin Avenue (from the Yacht Club on the west end to Jackson Avenue on the east end).
MDEQ strongly advises against swimming and other water contact in these waters until water samples show a consistent safe level for human contact. When water samples show that levels are safe for human contact, the advisory will be lifted. Additionally, swimmers are reminded that the Beach Task Force has a standing recommendation that swimming not occur during or within 24 hours of a significant rainfall event.
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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