Millions of dollars needed for new water intake line

BEEVILLE — “We’re in a very bad spot there,” Beeville Water Supply District Board President Jim Crumrine said during a meeting Monday.

Crumrine was talking about the location of the BWSD’s raw water intake structure in the Nueces River near Swinney Switch.

Reporting on a recent meeting with City of Beeville and BWSD board members with City of Corpus Christi officials, Crumrine told board members that the district has no choice but to move the structure into the lake proper or end up without a source of surface water.

[Civil engineer Stephen] Grunewald said Corpus Christi water officials need to hold the level of Lake Corpus Christi to below 74 feet above mean sea level in order to catch and impound more water during significant rain events.

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[font color=green]Beeville has about 15,000 residents so this will be a significant expense. The spillway levels at the Wesley Seale Dam is at 94 feet, so Lake Corpus Christi would be kept 20 feet low. The water intake structure is at 78 feet.[/font]