The Corpus Christi City Council has approved a draft agreement for a $169 million groundwater deal aimed at bolstering the city’s future water supply.
The proposed plan would draw water from the Evangeline Aquifer in San Patricio County. Initially, the project would deliver up to 12 million gallons per day, with the potential to double that amount to 24 million gallons in the future.
“There’s gotta be a strategy of multiple sources,” Councilman Gil Hernandez said. “With different ways to procure the water we need.”…