There’s an area of Jim Wells County with no running water, but that’s about to change. A new agreement with the Nueces County River Authority (NRA) means for the neighbors in the community.
Neighbors in the Tecolote area, which is north of Alice with about 200 residents, doesn’t have running water.
On Friday, Nov. 15, the NRA board voted to become the owner and operator for a water plant that JWC has been working on for several years, and when built, will finally put water into their homes.
“It would help if they put the city water out here,” Tecolote resident George Canales said.
Canales has lived in the Colonia for two decades. He and his neighbors have no access to city water, like most people. But, approval of two grants from the Texas Department of Agriculture could change that.
The grants received for JWC, totaled over $2,000,000, which would provide clean drinking water to the Canales family and their neighbors.
But, they need an entity to own and maintain the water plant project to move forward.