City of Corpus Christi officials are considering whether to hire two professional firms to perform additional far-field modeling for the proposed Inner Harbor desalination project.
The effort is to provide a comprehensive study of possible environmental impacts that could potentially be anticipated with the operations of the plant, planned to generate as much as 30 million gallons of treated water per day.
A lack of a comprehensive far-field model — one examining Nueces Bay, Corpus Christi Bay and the ship channel — was among the most frequently cited criticisms of an original, but since terminated, contract associated with designing and building the project…