City officials are optimistic that they will soon have an answer on whether a state agency will approve a $535 million low-interest loan to continue pursuit of the proposed Inner Harbor desalination plant.
In an email to the Caller-Times, Corpus Christi Water’s water resource manager Esteban Ramos wrote that the application to the Texas Water Development Board “is progressing well through the process.”
“City staff anticipate that the application will be taken in front of the Texas Water Development Board commissioners in July for approval,” he added in his message. “The City is excited to continue its hard work with the Texas Water Development Board and bring a drought proof, environmentally sustainable and ecologically affordable project to the Coastal Bend.”
The next board meeting is scheduled for July 23, according to the agency’s site, although an agenda is not yet available.
Agendas are posted one week before the meetings, wrote spokeswoman Emma Rogers in an email to the Caller-Times.
The low-interest loan is being requested under the board’s State Water Implementation Fund for Texas.