Corpus Christi Water hosting hiring event Saturday<\/a><\/p>\nCity managers from Beeville, Mathis, Alice, and Corpus Christi gathered Monday at the Wesley Seale Dam to confront the crisis and talk survival strategies before the taps run dry.<\/p>\n
\u201cPart of today\u2019s goal was to see how serious the situation is and then what options we have to help them out,\u201d said Corpus Christi City Manager Peter Zanoni. \u201cPipelines could be something, improving their intake structure at the lake.\u201d<\/p>\n
Corpus Christi has a safety net it can draw up to 70 million gallons a day from the Colorado River through the Mary Rhodes Pipeline. Smaller communities don\u2019t have that luxury. They rely solely on water from the shrinking lakes.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just time for the smaller communities to diversify their water portfolio,\u201d said Mathis City Manager Cedric Davis. \u201cWe definitely want to be in there, and we want to thank you guys because you\u2019ve been good partners.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mathis is drilling new wells to reduce its dependence on the lake. Beeville is working to rehab old wells.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we do the rehab of the existing wells and then the conveyance system and the RO skids, we potentially could have water coming in by February of next year,\u201d said Daniel Dorgan, Beeville\u2019s interim city manager.<\/p>\n
Alice is taking a similar approach, blending lake water with groundwater through its own reverse osmosis system. A long-term plan to weather droughts like this one.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are blending with our surface water and we\u2019re planning ahead as well,\u201d said Alice City Manager Michael Esparza. \u201cSo, we have an intake right where we\u2019re blending in case we want to drill a freshwater well as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
After the meeting, the group toured the Wesley Seale Dam to review recent upgrades designed to strengthen it and prepare for the next big rain. Whenever that finally comes.<\/p>\n
For now, that rain can\u2019t come soon enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Regional leaders huddle at the Wesley Seale Dam to figure out how to stay supplied. CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-14669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14669","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=14669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}