Richmond utility director resigns

Richmond utility director resigns as water crisis under investigation
Richmond Department of Public Utilities Director April Bingham resigned a week after water outages paralyzed Virginia‘s capital city. The water outages began last week when a winter storm battered the Old Dominion and there was a power outage at the city’s water treatment plant.
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Richmond residents faced multiple days without running water after a winter storm caused failures at a treatment plant.
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Richmond replaces utility director as Youngkin, Avula probe water outage
Richmond’s utilities director resigned Wednesday and was replaced by a former state official, as investigations got underway into last week’s water outage.
Bingham resigns as Richmond utilities director
The director of Richmond's Department of Public Utilities resigned Wednesday and will be replaced by a state water official in the interim, per a city news release. Why it matters: The outgoing DPU director April Bingham was heavily criticized for her management of the city's week-long water crisis,
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