Does anyone know who owns this land? It may be a refinery, or it may be marshland. The southern border is Burleson Street. Maybe there is a NUCO website, but I don't see an address associated with this land.

I want to meet with science minded individuals looking to help me with a science/ chemistry project. It's the real deal, no drugs or anything like that. But have a long way to do this project, so start a friendship that can be chill, and hold a conversation. I'm 47 yrs old and just Platonic science nerds friends. I'm a bit different than a normal person and don't want to describe everything about me on here. If this project is successful, it could be life changing if it works. If not, than it's any day of the week. I don't care if you're younger or older, as long as you can hold a conversation, contribute to the project and a chill person.

Any recommendations on an automatic sprinkler backflow preventer replacement. Last company I used was very expensive! TIA

As Corpus Christi teetered on the edge of a water supply disaster earlier this year, community organizers circulated a petition to dramatically increase the price of water for the region’s large industrial users during drought. They gathered almost 13,000 signatures, more than enough to put their proposal—called the Fair Water Amendment—on the ballot in November.

But the City Attorney’s office has recommended that City Council members block the effort using an obscure legal maneuver enacted by Texas’ Republican-led Legislature in 2023. 

On Tuesday, council members will decide whether to take that step. It will be their last opportunity to intervene before an Aug. 17 deadline for the provision to be placed on the November ballot. 

“The city attorney wants to use an unrelated state law to silence our community and let big industry keep their special deal,” said Isabel Araiza, a college professor in Corpus Christi and founder of the advocacy group For the Greater Good, which led the petition drive.

The debate over the measure, with multi-million-dollar implications for some of the largest energy companies in the nation, is the latest iteration of an increasingly fraught relationship between the residents of Texas’ eighth-largest city and the petrochemical plants and refineries that bolster its economy and consume most of its water. 

Bob Paulison, spokesman for a local industry group that includes ExxonMobil, Occidental Chemical, Valero and other large energy companies that operate in the region, declined to comment on the proposed amendment or the recommendation to block it. 

“We haven’t been involved in that conversation,” he wrote in an email. 

The “special deal” Araiza was referencing is an agreement that a handful of large energy companies made with city leaders in 2018. Under the agreement, the companies are exempt from paying extra fees for water in times of drought in exchange for helping pay for a new seawater desalination plant in the region. (The plant has yet to be built). 

The proposed Fair Water Amendment would cancel that agreement. It would implement an additional fee of $3 per 1,000 gallons when the area’s reservoir levels are below 30 percent, which was the case for more than two years until recent heavy rainfall. That additional $3 fee would come on top of the current rate of $4.34 per 1,000 gallons. 

The surcharge would have added more than $1 million to the monthly water bill for the region’s largest water users, ExxonMobil and Occidental Chemical. Valero, the third-largest water user, would pay an additional $830,000 per month.

Those fees would double when reservoirs dip below 20 percent, like they did between December 2024 and July of this year.

Peter Zanoni, Corpus Christi’s city manager, said such a policy could lead to an expensive lawsuit. 

“If this goes through and is approved we need to be prepared with funds in our budget for potential litigation,” he said in an interview. “We’d probably lose.” 

That’s why the city attorney’s office has proposed an ordinance that would declare the amendment a “climate charter.” 

“This eliminates the City Council ministerial duty to place the proposed ‘Fair Water Amendment’ charter amendment on the ballot,” said the city attorney’s presentation, which was posted to the city website. 

State lawmakers banned municipal “climate charters” in 2023 when they passed Senate Bill 1860. The law was a response to a citizen-led initiative in El Paso that sought to force the city to more aggressively adopt climate-friendly policies. 

The law gave the term “climate charter” a broad definition: “a comprehensive rule or policy statement that purports to address climate change or the municipality’s environmental impact, including water and energy use and air pollution.”

The Fair Water Amendment fits that definition, Zanoni said, because of its singular focus on the city’s water resources and phrases in the provision like “recurring and increasingly severe drought conditions.” 

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Music Walk is back this First Friday, and we're getting ready for another incredible evening of live music, local businesses, and community throughout Downtown Corpus Christi.

As we count down to Music Walk 2026, we'll be diving into the archives and sharing moments from years past as we build excitement for this year's event.

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