STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
Phil Bryant, GOVERNOR
MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
Trudy D. Fisher, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Robbie Wilbur
October 12, 2012 601/961-5277
MDEQ LIFTS BEACH CLOSURES FOR SEVERAL STATIONS
Four Locations in Hancock County and One in Harrison County
(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 Hancock and
Harrison Counties:
*Station 1 -- Lakeshore Beach near Lakeshore Drive in Bay St. Louis. The
extent is from the Sliver Slipper Casino eastward to the jetty west of
Poinset Avenue.
*Station 2 -- Buccaneer State Park Beach near State Park Road in Waveland.
The extent is from 100 yards west of the sign eastward to 100 yards east of
the sign.
*Station 3 -- Waveland Beach near Vacation Lane in Waveland. The extent is
from Oak Boulevard eastward to Favre Street.
*Station 4 -- Bay St. Louis Beach near St. Charles Street in Bay St. Louis.
The extent is from the box culvert eastward to Ballantine Street.
*Station 7 -- Pass Christian East Beach near Shadow Lawn Avenue in Pass
Christian. The extent is from Espy Avenue eastward to Hayden Avenue.
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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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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