CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Residents living near the Nueces River west of Calallen are sounding the alarm over Corpus Christi’s emergency water wells, saying the city’s efforts to boost its supply is putting their wells and the river at risk.

Dan Brodhag lives just feet from one of eight wells recently drilled along a two-mile stretch of the river. The wells draw water from the Evangeline Aquifer and release some of it back into the Nueces, but Brodhag says that hasn’t protected local wells.

“I don't even think any studies have been done, they just started poking holes and running these wells,” Brodhag said.

Brodhag's concern is shared by Kelly Harlan and Trey Cranford, who launched the Facebook page Stop Draining Our Lakes in 2016. The duo is now focusing their attention on groundwater, a

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