{"id":140551,"date":"2026-01-28T01:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T01:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/140551\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T01:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T01:12:07","slug":"robstown-neighbors-react-to-new-corpus-christi-water-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/140551\/","title":{"rendered":"Robstown neighbors react to new Corpus Christi water agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Residents of Robstown are voicing concerns about the City of Corpus Christi&#8217;s new water supply agreement with Nueces County Water Control Improvement District 3, despite acknowledging the need for relief from high total dissolved solids in their water.<\/p>\n<p>Robstown neighbors react to new Corpus Christi water agreement<\/p>\n<p>Chris Cuellar, a 15-year Robstown resident and member of the Nueces Groundwater Conservation District Committee, attended the Corpus Christi City Council meeting on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we oppose is the city&#8217;s heavy-handedness and wanting to gain 5 million gallons of water rights because of what they have done to impact our water quality,&#8221; Cuellar said.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/ewscripps.brightspotcdn.com\/70\/da\/348474424c9c8ac2f52b4010f0d9\/26-0112-treated-water-supply-contract-ncwcid3-with-exhibits-12-24-2025.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The agreement,<\/a> finalized Tuesday, represents what Marco Alaniz, district manager of NCWCID #3, said was their only option to continue serving their 30,000 customers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I say we drink from the same pot, we literally drink from the same water. So there is no other alternative for us. We either have this interconnect, or we don&#8217;t have water,&#8221; Alaniz said.<\/p>\n<p>The district views the agreement as a crucial step in securing water access for the community.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By doing this today, this helps us to secure a secondary water source when there is no water, and that&#8217;s now,&#8221; Alaniz said.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the practical benefits, some residents remain skeptical about Corpus Christi&#8217;s role in the agreement. Cuellar expressed concerns about the city&#8217;s ability to address future groundwater issues.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It lessens the trust that they have capable, means of being able to correct any issues that groundwater poses in the future,&#8221; Cuellar said.<\/p>\n<p>District 3 officials say they will continue working to provide quality drinking water to their community as they move forward with the new agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Residents of Robstown are voicing concerns about the City of Corpus Christi&#8217;s new water&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156,59282,12403,59283,18755,725,59285,59284,59286],"class_list":["post-140551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-corpus-christi-water-supply","tag-ncwcid-3","tag-nueces-county-water-control-improvement-district-3","tag-nueces-river","tag-robstown","tag-robstown-water-agreement","tag-robstown-water-supply","tag-water-agreement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}