Hondo and Lytle are one step closer to receiving desalinated drinking water in the future through an agreement between the Nueces River Authority and Port of Corpus Christi. On Tuesday, July 15, the port agreed to lease 31 acres on Harbor Island to the NRA to build the desalination plant. Harbor Island is northwest, across the Corpus Christi Ship Channel, from Port Aransas, and east, across Redfish Bay, from Aransas Pass. Intake and discharge pipes for the plant’s seawater will be positioned about 1.3 miles east of San Jose Island, in the deeper water of the Gulf of Mexico. This...