The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality issued the following statement.
The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) revised its general water contact advisory for the Jackson area to include Big Creek and Belhaven Creek, including a sandbar called “Belhaven Beach,” where it flows into the Pearl River. These two water bodies are added to the original advisory issued May 16 based on sampling results done by the agency around the Jackson area (see attached map – two additional creeks in yellow; original advisory in red).
The original advisory remains in effect for a section of the Pearl River from its confluence with Hanging Moss Creek to the Swinging Bridge in Byram. Advisories are also issued for Hanging Moss Creek, Town Creek, Lynch Creek, Eubanks Creek, Hardy Creek, and Trahon Creek. Also included is Tilda Slough which is along the south side of Pascagoula Street and east of Jefferson Street (parallel to Pascagoula Street) that flows through an underground culvert then emerges at I-55 near the Pearl Street exit. This slough drains north under High Street where it is pumped to the Pearl River.
MDEQ recommends that people avoid water contact activities such as swimming, wading, and fishing. People should also avoid eating fish or anything else taken from these waters until further notice. The advisory is being issued due to ongoing sanitary sewer overflows around the City of Jackson discharging wastewater into various waterbodies.
MDEQ staff will continue to collect water samples and monitor the water quality in the area. The advisory may be revised as needed.
7 comments:
Don't drink the water. That's not hot cocoa you're looking at.
They haven't updated the southern limit of the advisory on the Pearl? Big Creek flows into the Pearl south of the swinging bridge.
Yuk
Meanwhile - Take a weekend drive up to the Overlook on The Trace and notice forty boats of all descriptions in that tiny bay with a hundred people wading in piss and shit water.
Increasingly Jackson is unable to perform even basic city functions. Raw surface sewage discharges are on the increase, not the decrease. The ranks of the police department have been decimated. The previous record for murders is on pace to greatly exceeded. The streets are dotted with countless orange cones and barrels warning of serious road hazards.
Meanwhile Mayor Gumflapper jets here and there, domestically and internationally, intoning on this topic and that, as if he is some sort of f'ing expert at anything and everything.
We can only hope Jackson's bankruptcy comes quickly so that state takeover can begin.
Any lake (if it's ever built) that is bordered on one side by Jackson is going to have perpetual litter and contamination problems BIG TIME.
@9:01 AM - and that's why they can't have nice things.
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