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Meeting agenda, final, revised (includes cancelation of contract for a seawater desalination plant). (Link Type: Report)
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By Corpus Christi City Council
Publication Date: September 2, 2025
  3
The future of desalination in Texas: 2024 biennial report on seawater and brackish groundwater desalination in Texas (89th Legislative session). (Link Type: Report)
See: https://www.twdb.texas.gov/innovativewater/desal/doc/2024_TheFutureofDesalinationinTexas.pdf
By Texas Water Development Board (TWDB)
Publication Date: December 1, 2024
  3
Texas water: Are we in for a booming economic future? (Link Type: Report)
See: https://texas2036.org/posts/texas-water-are-we-in-for-a-booming-economic-future/
By Texas 2036
Publication Date: October 2024
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Ballot language for the November 4, 2025 constitutional amendment election. (Link Type: Agency Document)
See: https://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/forms/november-2025-ballot-language-17.pdf
By Texas Secretary of State
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Board agenda #30: Project funding request from the City of Corpus Christi (Nueces County) for $535,110,000 multi-year financing from the State Water Implementation Revenue Fund for Texas for planning, acquisition, design, and construction of a seawater desalination plant. (Link Type: Agency Document)
See: https://www.twdb.texas.gov/board/2024/07/Board/Brd30.pdf
By Texas Water Development Board (TWDB)
Publication Date: July 23, 2024
  4
Letter to Texas Commission on Environmental Quality General Counsel Mary Smith, RE: SOAH Docket No. 582-20-1895, TCEQ Docket No. 2019-1156-IWD-MWD, Port of Corpus Christi Authority of Nueces County (Application of Port of Corpus Christi Authority of Nueces County TPDES Permit No. WQ00052530001, recommended proposal for decision and order for Harbor Island desalination plant). (Link Type: Agency Document)
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By State Office of Administrative Hearings (SOAH) Administrative Law Judges Rebecca S. Smith and Cassandra Quinn
Publication Date: June 20, 2022
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Letters regarding permits for desalination facilities, including Port of Corpus Christi Authority of Nueces County, TPDES Permit No. TX0138347 (WQ00052530000) (Harbor Island desalination facilities). (Link Type: Agency Document)
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By U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
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Letter to Council Member Vaughn, Corpus Christi City Council, RE: Inner Harbor Ship Channel seawater desalination project (details regarding financing, loan repayment, redirecting funding, and support mechanisms if project is canceled). (Link Type: Letter)
See: https://lrl.texas.gov/scanned/archive/2025/57838.pdf
By Executive Administrator Bryan McMath, Texas Water Development Board
Publication Date: August 8, 2025
  4
Letter to Director Earl Lott, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Office of Water re: Interim objection – Request for additional information TPDES permit no. TX0138347 (WQ0005253000) Port of Corpus Christi (POCC) Authority of Nueces County (EPA rejection of proposed permit for seawater desalination plant). (Link Type: Letter)
See: https://lrl.texas.gov/scanned/archive/2021/52788.pdf
By Director Charles Maguire, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Water Division
Publication Date: December 15, 2021
  4
Letter to HUD and EPA re: Complaint under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000d, Regarding civil rights violations by the city of Corpus Christi for the siting of the Inner Harbor desalination plant in the Hillcrest neighborhood. (Link Type: Letter)
See: https://earthjustice.org/sites/default/files/files/inner_harbor_title_vi_complaint_oct26_final.pdf
By Earthjustice
Publication Date: October 26, 2022
  6
Inner Harbor seawater desalination (project web page). (Link Type: Website)
See: https://www.desal.cctexas.com/
By Corpus Christi Water
Publication Date: Accessed January 27, 2025
  7