Rainbow Water District hires new general manager

FALLBROOK — A recruitment effort that reached as far as India ended Friday when the Rainbow Municipal Water District Board of Directors hired a Fallbrook man as their new general manager.

At a special meeting, directors unanimously approved a five-year contract with new General Manager Dave Seymour, a three-year Fallbrook resident. Seymour, 50, begins his new job, which pays $156,000 a year, on September 17.

By accepting the Rainbow position, Seymour will leave his post of director of operations for the Santa Margarita Water District (SMWD), a 100-square-mile agency that has about 130 employee...