Additional environmental study for the proposed Inner Harbor desalination project may soon be underway — but will likely not have full results until roughly two months after the Corpus Christi City Council is expected to vote on a potential contract for design and build of a plant.
A committee advising city officials on the research, known as a far-field study, on March 12 scrutinized scope of the project and the timeline it would be delivered, with members in disagreement on whether information available by April 28 would suffice in helping to guide the council’s decision.
The plant is planned to be developed off Nueces Bay Boulevard and West Upper Broadway Street, and have the capacity to generate as much as 30 million gallons of treated water per day…