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Laredo staff press senate-scale options for second water source, emphasize emergency resilience
Summary
Staff outlined multiple long-term options to secure additional water for Laredo — including a deep-well ‘legacy’ project, a distant fresh aquifer, and reuse/diversion to Lake Casablanca — and urged focus on an emergency source for short-term river quality loss.
LAREDO — Laredo Utilities staff briefed the advisory committee on Thursday about options under study to provide the city with a second or emergency water source, describing projects that range from local desalination concepts to a 110-mile pipeline from a fresh aquifer.
The department said it is evaluating several approaches and emphasized that the city needs a short-term emergency source in addition to long-range capacity. “My goal, my strategy is what would we do if we had the river not usable for a for two weeks at least?” Dr. G told the committee.
Options discussed included a so-called “legacy project”—a large-scale drilling and…
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