Councilmembers Scott and Vaughn talk ownership complexity, high costs after CC Polymer deal collapses<\/a><\/p>\nThe community is petitioning for the creation of a Groundwater Conservation District to provide oversight over how that water is used and regulated.<\/p>\n
The petition needed 50 signatures to move forward with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). Organizers say they received more than 250.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe submitted our paperwork back on September second. We’re working through the process,\u201d said Nueces County resident Kelly Harlan, talking about the effort many are taking part in to protect their limited water supply.<\/p>\n
Tuesday night, many gathered at Rockin\u2019 K Farms to talk water. City and county leaders attended the event to hear both sides of the argument. Harlan says the answer to their problem is the creation of a groundwater conservation district.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe saw a need out there, we saw the rural residents being exploited. And that’s why we started this,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Harlan says while he understands the area\u2019s water situation as a whole, the needs of the city and rural communities are vastly different.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople out here they don’t have city water. People on County Road 73 next to the wells, the only water they have is well water. And you have the city with the big straw sitting right on their property line, sucking a lot of water all at once,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Corpus Christi District 3 Councilmember Eric Cantu says the Evangeline Aquifer isn\u2019t a long-term fix, but it\u2019s one of the handful of options currently on the table.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis water is just supposed to be for emergency use for now, right, we’re just supposed to use this water for a few years, till we get another project in line. But we do need to meet with them and figure out where we can meet in the middle,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Harlan says that\u2019s time residents in Nueces County might not be able to afford.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd these guys they’re just not gonna have any water and we’re going to have to do something about it and right now we have a big bullseye on us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Harlan says they\u2019re waiting for the TCEQ to deem the petition administratively complete. After that, he says, a confirmation election could happen by next November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 250 signatures were gathered as rural residents met at Rockin\u2019 K Farms, urging state regulators to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-25637","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\/25637","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=25637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}