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State lifts extended Pearl River contact advisory
By ALEX ROZIER - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Thu,07/03/25-12:02PM , 351 Reads 3,767 Statewide
The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality announced on Friday it has lifted an extended water contact advisory for the Pearl River, which had stretched south from Byram almost as far as Monticello.
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- Thad Cochran US Courthouse in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, July 19, 2023. Credit: Eric Shelton/Mississippi Today
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JXN Water vows legal action over debt during rate hike proposal
By ALEX ROZIER - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Thu,06/19/25-11:32AM , 434 Reads 4,080 Statewide
The new rates would have greater impact on tenants in apartment complexes.
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- Dorothy Davis, Communities of Shalom executive director, at the ceremonial groundbreaking for the Farish Street Green Commons, Thursday, June 5, 2025 in Jackson, Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today
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Farish Street groups break ground on green space
By ALEX ROZIER - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Tue,06/10/25-11:28AM , 507 Reads 4,358 Statewide
Local officials and community leaders posed to cameras Thursday morning on Farish Street as they dug their ceremonial shovels into the symbolic dirt pile in front of them. The symbolism, they hope, is the continued momentum around rebuilding the historic but largely abandoned downtown Jackson neighborhood.
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- Water flows through the low head dam at waterworks curve on the Pearl River Wednesday, October 17, 2018 near Mayes Lake Campground in Jackson. Credit: Eric J. Shelton, Mississippi Today/ Report for America
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‘Extensive’ Pearl River advisory remains as JXN Water halts 9-day overflow
By ALEX ROZIER - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Mon,06/09/25-2:48PM , 547 Reads 4,959 Statewide
JXN Water confirmed Friday afternoon that it stopped a sanitary sewer overflow into the Pearl River it discovered nine days prior. However, an expanded state water contact advisory for the river from elevated bacteria levels, issued on Thursday, remains in effect.
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