City Manager Peter Zanoni toured the Western Well Fields between Bluntzer and Banquete on Friday morning, highlighting a new groundwater project that will pump millions of gallons of water into the Nueces River.
With the governor’s intervention, the city received a permit to discharge 4.5 to 5 million gallons of water into the river. Test pumping on the 12 wells, located on a 250-acre site, began on Tuesday.
“This is really a moment in time, where we’re bringing on more water now from this very important groundwater project here in Nueces County. What we see behind me is 4.5 million gallons of water; it’s just the beginning. Over these next couple of weeks and into June, we’ll have a total of 26 million gallons of water coming through those two pipes that you see behind me,” Zanoni said…