The water in Port Aransas is safe to drink.

By Mary Judson
South Jetty editor

A boil water notice issued today, Tuesday, Aug. 14, by the City of Corpus Christi does not affect customers of the Nueces County Water Control and Improvement District No. 4, which supplies water to Port Aransas and Mustang Island south to the Corpus Christi Fire Station.

Water district superintendent Mark Young called the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) upon receiving the boil water notice Tuesday afternoon, "and they claim we are not involved."

"Our sampling has been satisfactory and we are not involved in the boil notice," Young said.

Further information about the drinking water supply will be included in the print and online editions of the Thursday, Aug. 16, issue of the South Jetty.