{"id":277000,"date":"2026-05-03T10:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T10:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/277000\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T10:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T10:00:13","slug":"video-explains-mary-rhodes-role-in-corpus-christis-vital-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/277000\/","title":{"rendered":"Video explains Mary Rhodes’ role in Corpus Christi’s vital pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kirsten Crow, Corpus Christi Caller Times<\/p>\n

Sat, May 2, 2026 at 9:45 AM UTC\"\"<\/p>\n

Arguably Corpus Christi’s most crucial water source amid staggering drought has been the Mary Rhodes Pipeline<\/a> \u2014 infrastructure that traces a 100-mile path between Lake Texana, near Edna, and the O.N. Stevens Water Treatment Plant in Corpus Christi.<\/p>\n

Completed within about a two-year period, it went into commission in 1998 and, nearly three decades later, is responsible for providing about 70% of Corpus Christi’s water supply<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rhodes, who was mayor from 1991 to 1997, played a key role in its development.<\/p>\n

Here’s how the pipeline took her name.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Corpus Christi Caller Times: Video shows why Corpus Christi’s vital water line bears Rhodes’ name<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kirsten Crow, Corpus Christi Caller Times Sat, May 2, 2026 at 9:45 AM UTC Arguably Corpus Christi’s most…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156,53141,102454,2646],"class_list":["post-277000","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-lake-texana","tag-mary-rhodes-pipeline","tag-water-supply"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277000","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=277000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}