FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 30, 2011
Contact: Robbie Wilbur
601/961-5277
MDEQ LIFTS WATER CONTACT ADVISORY FOR LOCATION IN GULFPORT
(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 advisory for the water at the following section of beach has been lifted:
●Station 10 – U.S. Naval Home/Veterans Hospital near Oak Avenue in Gulfport -- from Alfonso Drive eastward to the VA Main Entrance;
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.
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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