STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
Phil Bryant, GOVERNOR
MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
Trudy D. Fisher, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Robbie Wilbur
September 21, 2012 601/961-5277
MDEQ LIFTS BEACH CLOSURES FOR SEVERAL STATIONS
Nine Stations in Harrison and Jackson Counties Opened Friday
(JACKSON, Miss.) -- The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality
(MDEQ), through its Beach Monitoring Program, has lifted beach closures
issued August 31 for the following monitoring stations in Harrison and
Jackson Counties:
Harrison County:
Station 8 -- Gulfport West -- west end at Marie Avenue to the east end at
Camp Avenue;
Station 12 A -- Biloxi West Central -- extends from Travia Street on the
west to Iberville Drive on the east;
Station 12B -- Porter Avenue -- west end at St. Peter Street to the east
end at Dukate Street;
Station 13A -- Biloxi East -- west end at Dukate Street to east end at
Kuhn Street.
Jackson County:
Station 14 -- Front Beach – from the front of the Ocean Springs Yacht Club
to Jackson Avenue;
Station 15 -- Shearwater Beach -- from mouth of Weeks Bayou to Ashley
Place;
Station 17 -- St. Andrews Beach -- west end of the bulkhead to east end of
the bulkhead;
Station 19 -- Pascagoula West -- west end at Oliver Street to east end at
Westwood;
Station 20 -- Pascagoula East -- west end of Westwood to the east end at
Grand Oaks.
Water samples show the areas have 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.
For more information on what stations are open and closed, access the
Mississippi Beach Monitoring Program 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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(See attached file: beachliftsep21II.pdf)
Mr. Robbie Wilbur
Communications Director
Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality
Post Office Box 2261
Jackson, Mississippi 39225
601/961-5277
601/421-5699 (c)
601/961-5715 (f)
rwilbur@deq.state.ms.us
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