The Corpus Christi City Council will vote Tuesday on a $1 million lease that would let the city start pumping groundwater from the Evangeline project in San Patricio County, even as the larger deal for that water remains stuck.
The lease covers two wells that are already drilled on the property. Under the proposal, the city would pay the seller, Evangeline Laguna, LP, $1 million up front. As the city uses water, it would pay 80 cents per 1,000 gallons out of that money. The lease lasts one year and renews automatically.
A city memo says the wells could produce up to four million gallons of water a day…