Moratorium raises questions about Evangeline timeline, city says November 2026 goal still stands<\/p>\n
Following the vote, City Manager Peter Zanoni told KRIS 6 News the city submitted its application for drilling and transport on Thursday, but that they won’t know until Monday whether the moratorium applies to that application.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re not certain if it impacts the permit,\u201d Zanoni told KRIS 6 News.<\/p>\n
Zanoni said however that the city does not expect a potential two-month pause to delay its November 2026 goal of delivering at least 12 million gallons a day from Evangeline.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe\u2019ve been working regardless of applications or permits,\u201d Zanoni said. \u201cWe\u2019re continuing the design and starting pre-construction work.\u201d<\/p>\n
As previously reported, Corpus Christi must secure 60 million gallons of new water per day before November 2026<\/a> to avoid a Level One water emergency. <\/p>\n City officials said they believe they can meet that goal only if every project stays on schedule.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you include Evangeline, all of the reserved allocations, and all of the wells, it\u2019s a little more than 60 million,\u201d Zanoni told KRIS 6 News in October.<\/p>\n Adam Beam<\/p>\n A part of Lake Corpus Christi as of December 2025.<\/p>\n Updated water models reviewed by KRIS 6 in October showed the city avoids curtailment only if every project, including Evangeline, comes online without setbacks.<\/p>\n \u201cIf everything comes online as we are anticipating, there is no curtailment,\u201d Zanoni said at the time. \u201cSupply will always be enough for demand.\u201d<\/p>\n Councilman Eric Cantu also warned then that the margin for error is \u201crazor thin,\u201d saying previous leaders stalled other water options while focusing solely on Inner Harbor desalination.<\/p>\n \u201cWe know our 500,000 residents across seven counties are worried about the drought,\u201d Zanoni said Friday. \u201cWe\u2019re working hard to make sure we don\u2019t enter curtailment by having multiple sources of water so that if one is delayed, we still have another that can backfill it.\u201d<\/p>\n The Corpus Christi City Council is expected to consider additional design funding for Evangeline at their Tuesday\u2019s meeting.<\/p>\n WATCH THE FULL DISCUSSION AND VOTE HERE:<\/p>\n FULL: San Patricio County Groundwater Conservation District votes on moratorium<\/p>\n For the latest local news updates, click here<\/a>, or download the KRIS 6 News App.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SINTON, Tx \u2014 The San Patricio County Groundwater Conservation District voted Friday to enact a two-month moratorium on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156,10904,12098,6658,4126,41388,21415,41389,2904,33440,10836],"class_list":{"0":"post-86424","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-corpus-christi","9":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","10":"tag-corpus-christi-news","11":"tag-corpus-christi-water","12":"tag-groundwater-conservation-district","13":"tag-kris-6","14":"tag-kris-6-news","15":"tag-kris-6-running-dry","16":"tag-kris-6-water","17":"tag-moratorium","18":"tag-peter-zanoni","19":"tag-running-dry","20":"tag-san-patricio-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86424","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=86424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n