Port of Corpus Christi focuses on Harbor Island desal site [Video]

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Port of Corpus Christi officials are consolidating their focus and prioritizing desalination permitting for its Harbor Island property. 

The port had been working to file permits for both the area between Port Aransas and Aransas Pass, as well as property in the La Quinta Ship Channel between Ingleside on the Bay and Portland.

“The pursuit of a discharge permit at La Quinta is effectively on ice,” said Port of Corpus Christi Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer Jeff Pollack. “We haven’t taken active steps to suspend it, we are just not actively working on it.”

He said the move comes down to “limited bandwidth, limited resources, limited consulting assistance,” and the fact that the Harbor Island location gives an eventual developer the potential to desalinate 100 million gallons of water …