STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
Phil Bryant, GOVERNOR
MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
Trudy D. Fisher, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Robbie Wilbur
February 22, 2013 601/961-5277
MDEQ Issues Water Contact Advisories For Three Locations In Hancock County
(JACKSON, Miss.) -- The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality
(MDEQ), through its Beach Monitoring Program, issued water contact
advisories today for three sampling stations. These segments of beach are
not closed; however, there may be an increased risk of illness associated
with swimming in those areas.
MDEQ is working closely with local officials to advise residents that the
water in the following locations may have high bacteria levels:
● Station 1 ? Lakeshore -- from the Sliver Slipper Casino east to the jetty
west of Poinset Avenue.
● Station 2 -- Buccaneer State Park Beach near State Park Road in Waveland
from 100 yards west of the sign eastward to 100 yards east of the sign.
● Station 4 -- Bay St. Louis Beach near St. Charles Street in Bay St. Louis
from the box culvert east to Ballantine Street.
When water samples show that levels are safe for human contact, the
advisories will be lifted. The Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, which
performs water sampling of the Mississippi Gulf Coast beaches for MDEQ,
notifies the agency when an area has returned to acceptable levels.
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.
More information on the Mississippi Beach Monitoring Program:
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, text
"beach" to 601-863-8082,
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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