Rockport residents are bracing for potential water bill increases as city officials grapple with a looming 500% hike in raw water rates from Corpus Christi. At a recent community forum, City Council Ward 3 Representative Brad Brundrett detailed the city’s reliance on treated water from the San Patricio Water District, sourced from lakes including Corpus Christi, Choke Canyon, and Texana.<\/p>\n
The city averages 2 million gallons per day, with higher summer usage. To mitigate costs, Rockport is exploring a reverse osmosis plant, modeled after Alice’s $18 million facility, which could tap ample aquifer supplies like the Jasper Aquifer’s estimated 800-year reserve. Partnerships with cities like Portland are also under consideration, with funding via bonds or grants.<\/p>\n
Currently in Stage 3 restrictions, residents have achieved 32% conservation. The next stage may require 50% curtailments and exponential charges for non-compliers.<\/p>\n
“We’ve conserved well, but it’s a big step,” Brundrett said.<\/p>\n
Officials urged community support as Rockport seeks water independence amid regional shortages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rockport residents are bracing for potential water bill increases as city officials grapple with a looming 500% hike…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156,16198,223,16197],"class_list":{"0":"post-188907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-corpus-christi","9":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","10":"tag-corpus-christi-news","11":"tag-eedition","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-rockport_pilot"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188907","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=188907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}