Atlanta announced Tuesday that Department of Watershed Management commissioner Rob Hunter will resign.
Hunter, who oversees the city’s multi-billion dollar water and sewer program, plans to leave the position on Friday but he will serve as a technical adviser until the end of the year.
Since 2003, Hunter’s department has completed work on consent decrees and issued more than $2 billion of bonds. Hunter became commissioner of the department in July 2004. Before that he was deputy commissioner for engineering since November 2002.
“I came to the city eight years ago to implement the federally mandated consent decrees, manage the $4 billion capital program, and organize the Department of Watershed Management,” Hunter said in a statement. “By the end of the year I will have substantially accomplished those goals.”
Dexter White, the deputy commissioner for public works, will be interim commissioner of the watershed department.
No details were released about how the city plans to find a permanent commissioner.
