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
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.
