A civil rights challenge filed by Corpus Christi residents promises to delay the construction of a large-scale seawater desalination plant, which was initially supposed to be running by early next year.
to be running by early 2023. But the effort quickly became mired in challenges and delays. Ground has yet to be broken on the project.
That complaint led the Department of Transportation to suspend the bridge project until the Port of Corpus Christi agreed to fund an innovative, voluntary buyout and relocation program for the residents of Hillcrest. “That was pretty unique,” said Kelly Haragan, director of the University of Texas’ Environmental Law Clinic, who helped bring the 2015 complaint. “People were paid what it took to relocate to a comparable house in a comparable part of the city, not fair market value because the fair market value of their homes was nothing.”