{"id":416444,"date":"2026-08-25T17:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T17:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/416444\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T17:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T17:58:11","slug":"corpus-christi-moves-back-to-stage-1-water-restrictions-as-reservoir-outlook-improves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/416444\/","title":{"rendered":"Corpus Christi moves back to Stage 1 water restrictions as reservoir outlook improves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Corpus Christi will move from Stage 2 to Stage 1 water restrictions beginning Wednesday after updated projections showed the city&#8217;s combined reservoir levels are expected to remain above 40% through September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">RELATED: <a data-ylk=\"slk:Corpus Christi returns to Stage 2 water restrictions after nearly two years under Stage 3 drought rules;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kiiitv.com\/article\/news\/local\/corpus-christi-stage-2-water-restrictions-after-nearly-two-years-stage-3\/503-e50cba83-d381-4855-922e-e6dd2c534e21\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Corpus Christi returns to Stage 2 water restrictions after nearly two years under Stage 3 drought rules<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">City Manager Peter Zanoni announced the change on Tuesday ahead of a water update to the City Council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;This is somewhat breaking news,&#8221; Zanoni said. &#8220;The newest information shows that we&#8217;ll be above 40% all the way till the end of September.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The city moved into Stage 2 restrictions just weeks ago when projections showed reservoir levels would remain above 40% for only a short period. Zanoni said the improved conditions are lasting longer than initially expected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Under Stage 1, residents will be allowed to water lawns and landscaping once a week instead of once every other week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We&#8217;re going to move to Stage 1 water restrictions,&#8221; Zanoni said. &#8220;What that means is we can water or irrigate our lawns and landscaping once a week instead of once every other week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Zanoni said the decision follows the city&#8217;s drought contingency plan and the latest assessment from Corpus Christi Water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is a developing story. 3NEWS will update what the move to Stage 1 means for residents as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Corpus Christi will move from Stage 2 to Stage 1 water restrictions beginning Wednesday after updated projections showed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[74853,155,157,156,10904,101291,145071],"class_list":["post-416444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-city-manager-peter-zanoni","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-corpus-christi-water","tag-reservoir-levels","tag-stage-1-water-restrictions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416444","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=416444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}