{"id":221081,"date":"2026-03-26T07:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T07:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/221081\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T07:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T07:30:07","slug":"lake-corpus-christi-appears-nearly-dry-as-water-level-drops-below-10-percent-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/221081\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Corpus Christi Appears Nearly Dry as Water Level Drops Below 10 Percent Capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lake Corpus Christi appeared nearly dry, footage from March 11 shows, as the Texan city faced alarmingly low water levels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This video from Carrasco Ranch shows the drying lake, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waterdatafortexas.org\/reservoirs\/individual\/corpus-christi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:dropped to nine percent;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;dropped to nine percent&quot;}\" class=\"link \">dropped to nine percent<\/a> of its capacity on March 25. A year prior, Lake Corpus Christi was at 20.9 percent capacity, according to Water Data for Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tpr.org\/environment\/2026-03-21\/corpus-christi-cuts-timeline-to-disaster-as-abbott-issues-emergency-orders\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Texas Public Radio;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Texas Public Radio&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Texas Public Radio<\/a>, Governor Greg Abbott issued several emergency directives in a bid to prolong Corpus Christi\u2019s timeline to water shortages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cGovernor Abbott will utilize all necessary tools to ensure the Corpus Christi area has a safe, reliable water supply,\u201d Andrew Mahaleris, Abbott\u2019s press secretary, said on Tuesday, as per local news reports. Credit: Carrasco Ranch via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lake Corpus Christi appeared nearly dry, footage from March 11 shows, as the Texan city faced alarmingly low&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156,6944,9871,36414,35723],"class_list":["post-221081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-governor-greg-abbott","tag-lake-corpus-christi","tag-texas-public-radio","tag-water-levels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221081","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=221081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}