This project has been in the works for more than a decade, like the suspended Paulette Guajardo and other pro inner harbor talking heads like to always bring up.
Attached are proposed slides that will presented at tomorrow's council meeting. It is being proposed to pipe the brine discharge out to the gulf, and also expand the amount of water produced, from 30 million of gallons per day (MGD) to 80 MGD.
First, this project is absolutely the wrong choice: location - Hillcrest, serious and extreme cost concerns present without any project updates or changes, and it has been REPEATEDLY rejected and DENIED by not only a large majority of residents but also a majority of the current council.
The fact that that City Staff (Zanoni) are still recommending approval and that these last minute changes brought out to try and sway a vote of course shows, their disregard for democracy and their disregard for the concerns of regular citizens of Corpus, and their siding with corporations over residents.
Getting into these night before/hail mary/desperation changes:
The prospect of piping out the brine has always been in discussion around Inner Harbor (Hillcrest) desal. The audacity to propose a plan with it now, after it never coming into fruition before (OR FROM YOUR FIRST CHOICE CONTRACTOR LAST YEAR) is embarrassing and they are silly to think this would work.
Considering the discussion of piping out the brine would usually be around how much more than would impact project cost: These slides have no price estimates or projections and they want the council to approve moving this forward with these late changes.
Proposing that production will be more than doubled (!) at this point, with all that has happened in the timeline and the public pushback....They are responding to serious concerns by tripling down on this location and project! Show up to the meeting if you can! It will be most of the day tomorrow!