Citing work frustrations that raised his “temperature and blood pressure,” Peter Murphy will resign as Water Commissioner on March 7.

In his resignation letter to the Onset Fire District and Onset Water Department, Murphy said he initially ran for office to “get the Water Department back on track financially and technically like in the days that I was working for the department and was elected to my first round as Water Commissioner.”

Murphy was elected to the position in 2014.

While he offered no specific details on his resignation letter, Murphy accused the department of having “no clear direction forward,” and expressed concern that it “seems on the verge of collapsing on itself, while elected officials get lawyers and worry about trivial matters while the big picture slips away.”

Murphy seemed to cite financial transparency problems, saying that “in the two years I have been back I have not known how much money in the treasury belongs to the Water Department or where the amount of money brought in over the commitment is in the treasury or the total amount there.”

He also said that the district was not focusing on “the MOST important project”: building a new standpipe, which is a pipe to which fire hoses could be connected.

“The two boards, with lawyers, are fighting over the right to cut down trees and establish a new revenue source to keep the water rate and the concerns of rate-payers down,” Murphy said.

Murphy could not be immediately reached for comment.