The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality announced on Friday it lifted an extended water contact advisory for the Pearl River, which had stretched south from Byram almost as far as Monticello.
MDEQ put the warning in place on June 5 after third-party utility JXN Water notified the agency of a “catastrophic” sewer failure at the critical West Bank Interceptor.
“Recent samples of the Pearl River, within the area of the extended advisory, indicate the impact of the untreated sewage has subsided and sample results have returned to pre-incident levels,” the agency said in a June 27 press release…