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Beach Profile Detail
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Effective Year
:
2006
Beach Id
:
MS999656
Beach Name
:
Buccaneer State Park Beach
Beach Description
:
Sandy
Beach Comment
:
02
Jurisdiction
:
MS
County
:
Hancock
Waterbody Name
:
Gulf of America
Waterbody Type
:
Sound, Bay, or Inlet
Beach Act Beach
:
No
Tier
:
2
Is Historical?
:
No
Is Dormant?
:
No
Beach Owner
:
Public
Beach Access
:
Public
Access Comment
:
-
% of Beach Days with no Actions
0
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Report Name
Water Quality Data (Monitoring)
Beach Contact Information
Action Duration
Advisory and Monitoring
Beach Actions (Advisories and Closures)
Beach Attributes
Beach Days
Beach Monitoring Frequency
Possible Pollution Sources
Tier 1 Stats
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Swim Season and Water Quality Monitoring Frequency
# of Swim Season Days
:
6 MONTHS
Swim Day Length (hours)
:
-
Swim Season Start Date
:
-
Swim Season End Date
:
-
Swim Season Monitoring Frequency
:
4 PER_MONTH
Off Season Monitoring Frequency
:
4 PER_MONTH
Monitored Irregularly
:
No
Monitored Irregularly Comments
:
-
Monitoring Reporting
Frequency [to EPA]
:
-
Station ID
:
MS999656
(Note: Station IDs submitted prior to 2015 are not stored in PRAWN and therefore not available in BEACON; Query
WQP
using the Beach ID as the Project ID.)
WQS Criteria Names and Values
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Indicator
Name
Water
Type
Measure
Type
Measure
Value
Measure
Units
Criteria
Comments
ENTEROCOCCUS
BOTH
SSM
104
cfu/100 mL
No Comments Submitted
1 - 1
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Local Action Decision Procedures
Note: Procedure Code naming convention is XY_NAME where X is R (REOPEN), D (DETERM), or I (ISSUE) and Y is A (Advisory), C (Closing), or B (Both a Closing and an Advisory).
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Advisories
Advisory Reporting Frequency [to EPA]
:
-
Pollution Sources Investigated?
:
Yes
Pollution Sources Found?
:
Yes
(If 'Yes', see the Possible Pollution Sources Report for details)
Location
Start Latitude
:
30.2606
Start Longitude
:
-89.4039
End Latitude
:
30.2611
End Longitude
:
-89.4025
Beach Length (Mi)
:
.3
Mi
Source Map Scale
:
100000
Horizontal Collection Method
:
INTERPOLATION-SATELLITE
Horizontal Ref Datum Name
:
NAD83
Contact Information
Website Address
:
-
Name
:
-
Agency
:
-
Phone
:
-
Email
:
-
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