The city of Corpus Christi is facing a new setback in its fight to avoid a water emergency. A key part of its water plan — pumping groundwater from wells in Nueces County — is not producing as much water as city leaders said it would just one week ago.
City Manager Peter Zanoni said Thursday that updated projections will be shared with City Council at a workshop Tuesday, April 22, at 10 a.m.
What city leaders said last week
One week ago, on April 9, Zanoni told reporters the city felt good about its western well field — a newer set of wells drilled to pump groundwater into the Nueces River as an emergency water source.
The city has two well fields in Nueces County. The eastern well field came online first. It has 8 wells and is permitted to produce up to 10 million gallons per day. But its water has a higher salt content, and state monitoring rules have limited it to about 4 million gallons per day…