Freshwater Intrusion - Mississippi Sound


This page will be updated with information as needed. Please find additional resources below.

Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) Beach Monitoring Program:

Daily updates are provided through the Mississippi Beach Monitoring Program at https://opcgis.deq.state.ms.us/beaches

You also can receive automatic beach advisory updates from the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) by email (register here: http://opcgis.deq.state.ms.us/beaches/contact.html) and by text message (text "MDEQbeach" to 95577).

Mississippi Department of Marine Resources (MDMR): MDMR News & Updates: https://dmr.ms.gov/category/news-and-updates

National Park Service – Gulf Islands National Seashore:

Information about water conditions in the Gulf Islands National Seashore is posted on the National Park Service website at https://www.nps.gov/guis/planyourvisit/conditions.htm.

Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium:

The Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium (MASGC) works on diverse topics from nature-based tourism to healthy coastal ecosystems to oyster farming and fisheries to resilience to oil spill science, and they are a service-focused, university-based organization. Learn more here: https://gulfseagrant.org.