The City Council in one of Texas\u2019 largest petrochemical and refining hubs allocated over $200 million on Tuesday for a plan to drill new water wells as a more dire picture of the city\u2019s historic water crisis emerged.<\/p>\n
Water officials in Corpus Christi said at a public meeting that the city could reach a Level 1 water emergency as soon as May, moving up the threshold from November. Under that emergency, water curtailments would be required and could start at a 5 percent reduction of total water demand.<\/p>\n
The city is seeking to help address the shortage with the Evangeline Groundwater Project, which could see Corpus Christi Water move to drill more than 20 water wells at a cost of about $665 million.<\/p>\n
Council members on Tuesday green-lighted just over $208 million for the Evangeline project, but a legal challenge could delay construction by years or force the project to shut down altogether \u2014 reflecting a worsening outlook for the Corpus Christi region in South Texas. City officials and business leaders are weighing a range of options to secure access to more water supplies amid a sustained industrial boom and drought conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City Council in one of Texas\u2019 largest petrochemical and refining hubs allocated over $200 million on Tuesday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-209697","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\/209697","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=209697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}