{"id":472854,"date":"2026-10-22T01:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T01:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/472854\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T01:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T01:34:11","slug":"corpus-christi-moves-closer-to-securing-18m-for-water-line-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/472854\/","title":{"rendered":"Corpus Christi moves closer to securing $18M for water line upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Corpus Christi is one step closer to receiving nearly $18 million in federal funding to replace aging water lines along Leopard Street and Up River Road.<\/p>\n<p>The Corpus Christi City Council gave its initial approval to the funding Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The project is expected to cost about $25 million, with the federal grant covering 70% of the cost.<\/p>\n<p>The upgrades are intended to strengthen water infrastructure that serves Naval Air Station Corpus Christi and the Corpus Christi Army Depot.<\/p>\n<p>The federal funding could also reduce the financial burden on local ratepayers. According to the city, the grant would allow Corpus Christi to avoid borrowing more than $17 million to complete the project.<\/p>\n<p>City Council is expected to take a final vote on the funding October 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City of Corpus Christi is one step closer to receiving nearly $18 million in federal funding to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-472854","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\/472854","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=472854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}