{"id":191734,"date":"2026-03-05T13:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T13:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/191734\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T13:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T13:44:07","slug":"lake-corpus-christi-drops-below-10-capacity-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/191734\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Corpus Christi drops below 10% capacity for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Lake Corpus Christi marked a disturbing milestone Thursday, dropping below 10% of capacity for the first time ever.<\/p>\n<p>As of Thursday morning, the lake sat at 9.9% of capacity. Choke Canyon Reservoir is in worse condition, with its water level at 8.3% of capacity. The combined capacity of Choke Canyon and Lake Corpus Christi stands at 8.7%.<\/p>\n<p>The milestone comes as City Manager Peter Zanoni holds meetings with Corpus Christi water and city leaders to formulate a plan on how a Level 1 water emergency will be implemented.<\/p>\n<p>The city is currently under Stage 3 water restrictions. Under Stage 3, the city has implemented restrictions that achieve a 15% or greater reduction in daily water use.<\/p>\n<p>A Level 1 water emergency would require a 25% reduction in water use.<\/p>\n<p>For the latest local news updates, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/news\/local-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">click here<\/a>, or download the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/about-us\/kris-6-apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KRIS 6 News App. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Catch all the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/KRIS6News\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KRIS 6 News stories and more on our YouTube page<\/a>. Subscribe today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Lake Corpus Christi marked a disturbing milestone Thursday, dropping below 10% of capacity for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-191734","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\/191734","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=191734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}