CORPUS CHRISTI, Tx \u2014 Corpus Christi’s projected Level 1 Water Emergency has been pushed back to September 2027 \u2014 a nine-month improvement over the December 2026 timeline the city announced last month \u2014 according to an updated water supply and demand dashboard obtained by KRIS 6 News ahead of Tuesday’s City Council meeting.<\/p>\n
City Manager Peter Zanoni notified the Mayor and City Council of the revised projection in a memo sent this morning. <\/p>\n
In the memo, Zanoni wrote that the previous forecast \u2014 issued roughly 30 days prior \u2014 had projected a Level 1 emergency in December 2026. Sustained rainfall over the past 30 days changed that figure.<\/p>\n
“Given rains over the last 30 days (not including the past weekend’s rains), the now updated forecast shows a Level 1 Water Emergency being called in September 2027,” Zanoni wrote in the memo.<\/p>\n
Corpus Christi Water Chief Operating Officer Nicholas Winkelmann, P.E., is scheduled to present the assumptions behind the new model to the council on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Under the city’s drought contingency plan, a Level 1 Water Emergency is declared when the city is 180 days away from being unable to meet water demand \u2014 not when supply runs out. Once declared, mandatory 25% cuts take effect for all customers: residents, businesses, and large industrial users. <\/p>\n
As of Tuesday, June 23, the Texas Water Development Board reports the combined capacity of Lake Corpus Christi and Choke Canyon has risen to 14.8%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Tx \u2014 Corpus Christi’s projected Level 1 Water Emergency has been pushed back to September 2027…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,2950,23408,157,156,52290,2904,68805],"class_list":["post-347089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-city-council","tag-corpus-christi-drought","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-nueces-county-groundwater","tag-peter-zanoni","tag-water-corpus-christi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347089","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=347089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}