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2. Bids be received November 21, 1984, for 71 vehicles as follows: 33 police
sedans, 12 other vehicles for police, 2 station wagons and 24 standard
sedans.
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YOENOTES PROFESSIONAL
CORPORATION
The Mayor and City Council
City Hall
Corpus Christi, Texas 78401
Dear Mayor Jones and Members of the Council:
This is a further written report from the ad hoc Water
Supply Commission which supplements our report of October 16,
1984. We :make it in this fom to give you specific recommendations.
As you know, the amount of water in our two reservoirs has
increased substantially because of recent rains in the watershed.
With water still flowing into the reservoirs, we now have avail-
able in both approximately twice the amount in storage we had three
weeks ago. Within two more weeks we should have in usable storage
230,000 acre feet or an amount almost identical with that of a
year ago. If we have no additional rainfall until August 1, 1985,
which we consider unlikely, this assures us water at a rate which
can be increased above our present usage if it is supplemented
water from wells now producing, and to be drilled under our well
drilling and production progr am.
By December 1, 1984, we anticipate receiving from wells
approximately 25,000,000 gallons per day. We believe that this
will be reasonably adequate as a supplemental supply for the fore-
seeable future. At the same time, it is essential that the City
continue to acquire leases and contracts covering land upon which
even more wells could be drilled to produce a total 60,000,000
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October 30, 1984
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YOENOTES PROFESSIONAL
CORPORATION
The Mayor and City Council
City Hall
Corpus Christi, Texas 78401
Dear Mayor Jones and Members of the Council:
This is a further written report from the ad hoc Water
Supply Commission which supplements our report of October 16,
1984. We :make it in this fom to give you specific recommendations.
As you know, the amount of water in our two reservoirs has
increased substantially because of recent rains in the watershed.
With water still flowing into the reservoirs, we now have avail-
able in both approximately twice the amount in storage we had three
weeks ago. Within two more weeks we should have in usable storage
230,000 acre feet or an amount almost identical with that of a
year ago. If we have no additional rainfall until August 1, 1985,
which we consider unlikely, this assures us water at a rate which
can be increased above our present usage if it is supplemented
water from wells now producing, and to be drilled under our well
drilling and production progr am.
By December 1, 1984, we anticipate receiving from wells
approximately 25,000,000 gallons per day. We believe that this
will be reasonably adequate as a supplemental supply for the fore-
seeable future. At the same time, it is essential that the City
continue to acquire leases and contracts covering land upon which
even more wells could be drilled to produce a total 60,000,000
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gallons per day if that should prove necessary.
There is no doubt that water from wells is the most immediate
and most economical supplemental supply available to Corpus Christi.
The initial draft of the desalination report from Stone & Webster
and DDS Engineers was received only yesterday and we will report on
it to you after careful study. There is nothing in it, however,
which contradicts this conclusion on well water. Neither is it con-
tradicted by the possible purchase of water from Lake Texana which
is still being considered.
Even so, well water costs approximately four times the current
cost of water in storage in our reservoirs. If the City is to have
the supplemental supply from wells which we believe this situation
demands, additional revenue from the sale of water is essential.
We do not hold ourselves out as water rate experts but we have
examined with the City staff the rate schedule now in effect. You
' know already, but unfortunately the public generally does not, that
water is sold to residents of Corpus Christi and the area it serves
at cheaper rates than those of any other city in Texas. We believe
that a restructuring of our rate schedule.is required to allow the
continued drilling of wells. If this occurs and if the City's water
rates are restructured there should be a relaxation but certainly
no present removal, of the current restrictions on water use. Our
problem is not yet resolved.
With this in mind, our Commission passed unanimously the fol-
lowing resolution in three parts which are designed to be insep-
arable and which are recommended to you for adoption:
(1) The City should move ahead promptly to complete
development and production of 25,000,000 gallons per day of
well water and should acquire leases and rights on land -'?
for further development and production of a total 60 (Ol ,IBSq
million gallons per day of well water if and when this I'61
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(2) Corpus Christi's current water rates should be
restructured immediately so that revenue will be sufficient
to cover the cost of deyelopinp and producing well water
and to finance our current water s stem obli ations; and
(3) You should remove immediately, until at least
the month of August, 1985, the water allocation and sur-
charge provisions adopted under the ordinance og verning ^:rt"
water use) leaving in effect remaining water use restric-
tions. (This simply means that allocations to residences
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and businesses would be removed for a period during which 1�
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G the City may evaluate properly and safely the removal of
other restrictions or reimpose mandatory allocations, de-
pending on the situation t develops during thatttime.)
The people of Corpus Christi responded admirably to the de-
mands imposed by our temporary water shortage. Having learned not
only that water conservation is possible but beneficial, and re-
alizing that our water problem is not yet at an end, we believe
they will continue to respond voluntarily in a comparable manner.
lie suggest that there is an additional important reason for
Your adoption of this program. For some reason, our water problem
in Corpus Christi has received not only state and national, but
international, attention. We do not know why this occurred when
other cities have suffered temporary water shortages without
achieving the notoriety inflicted on Corpus Christi. It will take
years for us to recover from the damage done but we believe that
the program we recommend will demonstrate to the world our de-
termination to maintain an adequate water supply.
We look confidently to the restoration of the good image of
Corpus Christi that we can achieve through proper management of
our water resources.
Respectfully,
Haden W. Head
Chairman, Water Supply Commission