STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
Phil Bryant, GOVERNOR
MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
Trudy D. Fisher, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Robbie Wilbur
October 4, 2012 601/961-5277
MDEQ LIFTS BEACH CLOSURES FOR SEVERAL STATIONS
(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 County:
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|Station 9 – Gulfport Harbor Beach near Pratt Avenue. The extent is from |
|20th Avenue eastward to Thornton Avenue. |
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|Station 10 -- Gulfport Central Beach at the Armed Forces Retirement Center|
|near Oak Avenue. The extent is from Alfonso Drive eastward to the old |
|Armed Forces Retirement Center Main Entrance. |
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|Station 10A -- Courthouse Road Beach near Courthouse Road west parking |
|lot. The extent is from the old VA Main Entrance eastward to Courthouse |
|Road. |
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|Station 11 -- Gulfport East Beach near Cowan/Lorraine Road. The extent is|
|from Teagarden Road eastward to Anniston Avenue. |
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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: beachliftoct4.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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