CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Beeville City Manager John Benson told 3NEWS the city is looking to inject the chemical sodium permanganate into the water because the Nueces River water intake tower is sucking up too much sediment.
"In addition to improvements that we’ve made at our water treatment plant over the past couple of years to deal with the higher organic levels, we're currently working with TCEQ also on adding another measure at our raw water pump station to address the higher organic levels that we're seeing." he said.
According to Corpus Christi Water COO Drew Molly, the chemical is safe and is used to treat our water.
"We do that, it’s very effective and so I’m glad to see Beeville is doing the same thing," Molly said. "Apparently, Beeville must be having some challenges with colored related complaints from customers."
He also told 3NEWS that combined lake levels will drop below 20 percent next week and Stage 3 water restrictions will go into effect for CCW customers shortly after that.
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