CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Aransas Pass City Manager Gary Edwards tells 3NEWS that the final environmental cleanup site the city needs to complete at Conn Brown Harbor is set to be finished sometime after the New Year.
It’s a piece of land that sits next to the Conn Brown Harbor launch.
It needs to be tested, and any petroleum residue found is to be removed from the soil, just like the city has done with the other two sites which were contaminated with oil. Then the city can work with developers on what could be built on the site in the future.
One of the folks running a family bait stand out at Conn Brown Harbor said he really appreciates the job the city is doing in trying to cleanup this area, and hopes it will bring in new business.
Ricky Nguyen is usually always busy at his family’s Captain Cady’s Bait Shop.
The stand is known as the fisherman’s go-to place for the best bait fish around.
"From keeping the environment clean here and having people coming down and wanting to see not a run-down little town, but to see more of what it should be, I feel like that’s a big step for the city and what they’re doing for us,” he said.
South of Conn Brown Harbor is where the city is facing a $10 million cleanup if it wants to develop that waterfront property off Ransom Road.
It was used as a dumpsite for old tires and other debris, but, now it sounds like the city has a developer who’s willing to pay for the cleanup.
"They would like to do something in there and will clean up the land in the process,” Edwards said.
The city manager said he and company officials are in discussions with the state about the cleanup at that property that's known as LWR.
If a deal is reached, he said a high-end yacht maintenance facility would be built there.