It's no secret that the water utility of New Jersey's capital city has had a rocky history.

The latest: a worker was fired after falsifying testing he was doing at home -- leaving the drinking water of more than 200,000 people largely untested for contaminants for more than a year.

That came three months after experts found a plethora of issues at Trenton Water Works including staffing and financial woes racking up issues it would take millions to solve, according to a consultant's analysis obtained by NJ Advance Media on Wednesday.