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It was ink-black in the vast underground water tank. And biting cold. The only escape, a panel in the ceiling, loomed 5 feet above the water level, far too high to reach. Worse, there was no ladder. In that frigid subterranean cavern at the Passaic Valley Water Commission in Totowa, Geetha Angara scientist, wife and mother of three met her horrible death 10 years ago today...
It was Angara's job to ensure the water was clean and safe, and she took it seriously, former co-workers and family members said. In 2004, she was promoted to the position of senior chemist, charged with overseeing the plant's transformation into a cutting-edge facility that would eventually dispense with chlorine treatments in favor of an ozone disinfection system. "It was a very exciting time for her," said her husband, Jaya, a banker...
Despite her personal satisfaction, Geetha Angara told her husband some employees in the facility were resentful of her promotion and disagreed with the decision to switch to the ozone cleansing process. In the weeks before his wife's death, Jaya Angara said, another employee blamed her when a pinkish material seemingly associated with the ozone system was discovered in treated water.
"My wife told me the atmosphere was very hostile at the time," he said. "There was friction."