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02-11-2005 06:01 PM |
Town's Water Supply Contaminated By Corpse
Woman's Corpse In Water Tank
New Jersey -- Divers found the body of a water-treatment chemist at the bottom of a gigantic underground tank last night, and investigators are looking into the possibility of foul play.
Meanwhile, the Passaic Valley Water Commission advised customers in 17 towns to boil their water — a customary precaution when a foreign object is found in a tank.
Geetha Angara, 43, a senior chemist, was last seen as she left her office at the commission's Totowa plant at around 10 a.m. Tuesday to check instruments in a water holding tank.
Police and firefighters began looking for Angara Tuesday night, and yesterday searched the plant's grounds and underground tanks, which hold millions of gallons of water.
Angara's husband and three children were at the plant as searchers began draining its gigantic tanks one by one. Finally, divers found her body in a 35-foot-deep sump opening at the bottom of one of the emptied tanks.
"We are looking at this from every angle," said Passaic County Prosecutor James Avigliano. "We don't want to assume this woman fell in."
It's unlikely Angara herself could have lifted the heavy grating covering the tank, Avigliano said.
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