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Pump station incident prompts precautionary closure of beach

MBJ Staff — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:29:37 +0000

BILOXI — The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), through its Beach Monitoring Program, has issued a precautionary beach closure. The affected beach is from Grande View Drive to Brady Drive in Biloxi (approximately from east of Edgewater Mall to just past Beauvoir). The City of Biloxi reported to MDEQ that a pump station malfunctioned [...]

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With tar balls still common, some question end of oil spill cleanup

Associated Press — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 16:38:10 +0000

GULF OF MEXICO — Finding tar balls linked to the BP oil spill isn’t difficult on some Gulf Coast beaches, but the company and the government say it isn’t common enough to keep sending out the crews that patrolled the sand for three years in Alabama, Florida and Mississippi. Tourist John Henson of Atlanta disagrees, [...]

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Port City will spend millions on sewer upgrade

Associated Press — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:56:16 +0000

GREENVILLE — Greenville Mayor John Cox says the city will undertake a multi-million dollar, five-year program to upgrade the aging sewer system. Cox tells the Delta Democrat Times the city is working with the Environmental Protection Agency and the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality to develop a plan to fix the system. Cox says officials [...]

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Different techniques prove successful in keeping sand on beaches

Associated Press — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 10:26:06 +0000

HARRISON COUNTY — Over the past three months, Harrison County has used two methods of keeping sand off the highway and both worked. Engineer Dax Alexander and Sand Beach director Chuck Loftis told Harrison County supervisors that in the area of beach between Menge and Troutman in Long Beach and Pass Christian, workers removed sand [...]

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BP oil spill cleanup ends, but MDEQ still monitoring beaches

MBJ Staff — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 10:23:17 +0000

GULF OF MEXICO — The Gulf Coast Incident Management Team and the U.S. Coast Guard are transitioning the Deepwater Horizon oil spill response back to the pre-spill National Response Center system, according to a release from the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ). “While the Coast Guard and the Gulf States have decided that it’s [...]

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Senators back bill aimed at EPA’s guidance policy

MBJ Staff — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 11:02:17 +0000

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sens. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) have renewed their fight to halt the Environmental Protection Agency from using regulatory guidance to expand the scope of the Clean Water Act. Cochran and Wicker are cosponsoring the Preserve the Waters of the U.S. Act (S.1006), which would prevent the EPA and U.S. [...]

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With lifting of advisories, all Coast beaches open

MBJ Staff — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 10:59:13 +0000

HARRISON COUNTY — The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), through its Beach Monitoring Program, has lifted two water contact advisories issued June 1 for stretches of Harrison County beach. Advisories were lifted on the following beach monitoring stations: • Station 10B — East Courthouse (from Courthouse Road east to Teagarden • Station 11A — [...]

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MDEQ lifts advisories on three stretches of beach

MBJ Staff — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 11:42:41 +0000

GULFPORT — The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), through its Beach Monitoring Program, has lifted three water contact advisories issued May 31. The cleared stations are: • Station 8 — Gulfport West (from Maria Avenue east to Camp Avenue • Station 9 — Gulfport Harbor Beach (from 20th Avenue east to Thornton Avenue • [...]

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Agency sets opening date for 2013-2014 shrimping season

Associated Press — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 11:12:18 +0000

GULF OF MEXICO — The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources has set the opening date of the 2013-14 shrimp season in Mississippi territorial waters for June 11 at 6 a.m. All regulations set forth in ordinances of the MDMR will be in full force and effect and all boats engaged in catching or transporting shrimp [...]

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IP subsidiary fined $3.3M for Pearl River fish kill

Associated Press — Thu, 30 May 2013 17:16:21 +0000

NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge has ordered Temple Inland, a subsidiary of International Paper, to pay $3.3 million and serve two years of probation for polluting the Pearl River in 2011 with illegal discharges from its Bogalusa paper mill that killed thousands of fish. Equipment malfunctioned at the mill, which makes containerboard, allowing an [...]

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