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.

Richmond’s utilities director resigned Wednesday and was replaced by a former state official, as investigations got underway into last week’s water outage.

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,