The director of Austin’s water department resigned Feb. 11, days after employee mistakes at a treatment plant put the city under a boil order notice for three days.
Austin Water Director Greg Meszaros announced his resignation in a letter Friday, the Austin American-Statesman reported. He wrote that he takes “full responsibility for any shortcomings at the utility this past week.”
Texas’ capital city, which has a population of about 960,000, has experienced three boil orders since 2018 and another separate incident in which water for some residents had a foul, fishy odor because of the presence of dead zebra mussels, the newspaper reported.
Meszaros has served as Austin Water’s director since 2007.
The most recent boil order began Feb. 5 and was lifted Feb. 8. Officials have said employees at a treatment plant did not respond quickly enough to signs of cloudiness in the water.
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