Corpus Christi water curtailments could start in 2026, industry warns of job losses<\/a><\/p>\nThe proposal called for the city to pay a nonrefundable reservation fee to lock in 50 million gallons of water a day from the Nueces River Authority\u2019s planned desalination plant. The catch? The city would have to pay up now \u2014 with no guarantee of getting the money back.<\/p>\n
Mayor Paulette Guajardo, City of Corpus Christi said, \u201cWater rates are unknown, final cost don\u2019t know, design don\u2019t have it, power don\u2019t have it, there\u2019s no financing, there\u2019s no permits.\u201d<\/p>\n
John Byrum, Executive Director, Nueces River Authority responded. \u201cSomebody has got to get these folks some water, ma\u2019am.\u201d<\/p>\n
Councilman Everett Roy was among those questioning the deal, especially the part about the money being nonrefundable.<\/p>\n
Everett Roy, City Councilman stated, \u201cThey have the gall and nerve to sit there and put us under a contract that says you put the money up and we don\u2019t get our money back at any time. Who enters an agreement like that?\u201d<\/p>\n
But not everyone agreed with the criticism. Councilwoman Carolyn Vaughn fired back, accusing some of her colleagues of playing politics over water. \u201cYou sit up here now and I think you have a bad taste in your mouth because it\u2019s not the Inner Harbor. Well, either you want desal or you don\u2019t. You want water or you don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the end, the council voted to delay the decision until October 21, hoping to get more details before committing millions.<\/p>\n
Afterward councilman Gil Hernandez told 3 News, “We just need a little bit more information so that we have a good idea what we should reserve and not just reserve whatever amount.\u201d<\/p>\n
Byrum wanted to assure the city that his agency has now backed out of a project or failed to finish one, “We have not failed on anything that we started to do. Matter of fact, failure is not an option here.\u201d<\/p>\n
For now, the Harbor Island deal is on hold, but the water debate in Corpus Christi is far from over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Tempers flared again at City Hall today \u2014 this time over a $2.7 million…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-15546","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\/15546","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=15546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}