CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Corpus Christi City Manager Peter Zanoni announced another victory in the City of Corpus Christi's efforts to create an inner harbor desalination plant.
The Environmental Protection Agency notified the City that they will not be objecting to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality's issuance of a draft discharge permit for the new desal plant. That draft discharge permit was issued in December of last year, and the TCEQ was required to seek the EPA's input before issuing a final permit.
The draft discharge permit will allow the City to discharge brine through a process called jet diffusion to mix the removed salts with ocean water, according to Corpus Christi Water Resource Manager Esteban Ramos.
Over the next 10 years, the City wants to build two new desalination plants, along with other water projects to help boost our water output by another 130 million gallons of water a day.
The inner harbor desal plant, which will be built off West Broadway Street, is expected to produce 30 million gallons of water per day.
The City is planning a second desal project along the La Quinta Ship Channel that would produce an additional 40 million gallons of water. Zanoni told 3NEWS that a permit request has been submitted to the TCEQ for that facility as well.
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