Question: Which waterway, the New Orleans Outfall Canals or the Corpus Christi Ship Channel, is closer to the city of El Paso?
Context: The 17th Street Canal is the largest and most important drainage canal in the city of New Orleans.  Operating with Pump Station 6, It moves water into Lake Pontchartrain.  The canal, along with the Orleans Canal and the London Avenue Canal, form the New Orleans Outfall Canals.  The 17th Street Canal forms a significant portion of the boundary between the city of New Orleans and Metairie, Louisiana.  The canal has also been known as the Metairie Outlet Canal and the Upperline Canal. The Harbor Bridge Project ( or New Harbor Bridge) is a 802.9 million dollar project to replace the existing Corpus Christi Harbor Bridge that crosses the Corpus Christi Ship Channel which serves the Port of Corpus Christi.  Ground breaking on construction took place on August 8, 2016. Port of Corpus Christi is the fourth-largest port in the United States in total tonnage.  <ref name= http://www.caller.com/story/news/special-reports/building-our-future/growth/2017/05/26/massive-tankers-arrival-south-texas-makes-history/102010600/.  Port Corpus Christi is located on Corpus Christi Bay in the western Gulf of Mexico, with a straight 45 ft channel.  The port is located close to downtown Corpus Christi in Nueces County, Texas, but the port is not part of the city or the county.  Port Corpus Christi operates without receiving any city, county, or state tax dollars.  It is governed by an unpaid board of seven citizens, three of whom are appointed by the Nueces County Commissioners Court, one by the San Patricio County Commissioners Court, and three by the Corpus Christi City Council.  Port Corpus Christi handles over 6,000 vessels and over 80,000,000 tons of cargo annually.  Environmental initiatives are handled through the port's Environmental Management System (EMS).  To fight crime and terrorism, public safety at Port Corpus Christi is handled by the Port Corpus Christi Police Department and its state-of-the-art security center. The Orleans Canal is a drainage canal in New Orleans, Louisiana.  The canal, along with the 17th Street Canal and the London Avenue Canal, form the New Orleans Outfall Canals.  The current version of the canal is about 2 km long, running along the up-river side of City Park, through the Lakeview and Lakeshore neighborhood, and into Lake Pontchartrain.  It is part of the system used to pump rain water out of the streets of the city into the Lake.  The Canal has also been known as the Orleans Avenue Canal, the Orleans Outfall Canal, the Orleans Tail Race, and early on, the Girod Canal, Pelican Island is a semi-tropical island in the Corpus Christi Bay, situated immediately south of the Corpus Christi Ship Channel.  It is one of the largest habitats of both Brown- and White pelicans in the State of Texas.  In the late 1980s, Pelican Island was the only location in all of Texas where you could find nesting Brown pelicans. The Corpus Christi Ship Channel is a deep water navigable ship canal located in Corpus Christi, Texas.  It is part of the Port of Corpus Christi, managed and controlled by the Corpus Christi Port Authority.  The depth of the channel is 45 feet (13.7 meters).  It is used mostly for heavy industry and the export and import of goods. The Corpus Christi Harbor Bridge is a through arch bridge located in Corpus Christi, Texas which carries six lanes of US 181 from downtown Corpus Christi to Rincon Point, known to locals as North Beach.  The harbor bridge crosses the Corpus Christi Ship Channel, which serves the Port of Corpus Christi, which is one of the US's busiest seaports and handles nearly 26,000 vehicles daily.  A new bridge is currently under construction, which would allow larger ships to pass beneath.  It is common for individuals to attempt suicide by jumping off the Harbor Bridge. Bullwinkle is a 1736 ft tall, pile-supported fixed steel oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico.  Of the total height, 412.1 m are below the waterline.  It is located in Green Canyon Block 65, approximately 160 mi southwest of New Orleans.  Bullwinkle belongs to Fieldwood Energy LLC.  The total field development construction cost was US$ according to some sources.  The jacket, i.e. the mainly submerged part of the platform, was built by Gulf Marine Fabricators in 1985-1988 at the North Yard location at the intersection of the Corpus Christi Ship Channel and the Intracoastal Waterway in Port Aransas, TX, east of Corpus Christi.  The platform was installed by Heerema Marine Contractors. There are three outfall canals in New Orleans, Louisiana – the 17th Street, Orleans Avenue and London Avenue canals.  These canals are a critical element of New Orleans’ flood control system, serving as drainage conduits for much of the city.  There are 13 mi of levees and floodwalls that line the sides of the canals.  The 17th Street Canal is the largest and most important drainage canal and is capable of conveying more water than the Orleans Avenue and London Avenue Canals combined. Port Aransas ( ) is a city in Nueces County, Texas.  This city is 180 miles southeast of San Antonio.  The population was 3,480 at the 2010 census.  Port Aransas is the only established town on Mustang Island.  It is located north of Padre Island and is one of the longest barrier islands along the Texas coast.  Corpus Christi Bay, the Gulf of Mexico, the Lydia Ann Ship Channel and the Corpus Christi Ship Channel make up the surrounding waters.
Answer: Corpus Christi Ship Channel