Officials in Corpus Christi, Texas, picked Kiewit Infrastructure South Co. to design and build the city’s planned Inner Harbor Desalination Plant. Local leaders estimate the project’s cost at $757.6 million.

The seawater desalination plant would have a capacity of 30 million gallons per day. Officials with the city-owned utility Corpus Christi Water plan to build the plant at a site beside the Inner Harbor ship channel, which links the Port of Corpus Christi to the Gulf of Mexico. The plant would both draw from and discharge into the channel.