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TV crime show shot scene similar to chemist's death Saturday, February 19, 2005 TOTOWA - A popular television crime show filmed a scene inside the Passaic Valley Water Commission plant last year that included a body floating in a tank of water, commission officials said Friday.The officials lamented the nature of the scene from "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" in light of last week's drowning of a senior chemist in one of the plant's underground water storage tanks."This is certainly an unfortunate coincidence," commission spokesman Ernie Landante said.Investigators have labeled chemist Geetha Angara's death a homicide and have interviewed...

Death of worker at treatment plant ruled a homicide The Associated Press PATERSON, N.J. - A woman whose body was found in a tank at a water treatment plant drowned and her death has been ruled a homicide, the Passaic County prosecutor said Monday. Geetha Angara had been doing water quality tests Wednesday when she disappeared. A search found her body about 100 feet from where she was working, but her two-way radio and clipboard were found directly below the work area, which had a protective grate to prevent falls, Prosecutor James F. Avigliano said. "That was where we think...

Who budged a heavy steel grate that covered an opening to a utility's water tank? And after divers found a missing woman dead in that tank, how would the public know if it was getting safe drinking water? Those two questions marked a perplexing Thursday for authorities investigating the death of chemist Geetha Angara at a water utility in Totowa, and for frazzled officials and residents waking up to a boil-water order. As police focused on the 43-year-old water tester's last moments, Passaic Valley Water Commission customers in 17 North Jersey towns were affected in the aftermath of Angara's mysterious...

WOMAN'S CORPSE IN WATER TANK By PERRY CHIARAMONTE February 10, 2005 -- Divers found the body of a New Jersey 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...

New York -WABC, Feb. 10, 2005) — A boil water advisory has gone out to 17 area towns this morning. All are serviced by the same water treatment tank where the body of a missing New Jersey woman was found last night. Eyewitness News reporter Ken Rosato is at the scene in Totowa with more. The medical examiner arrived at the Passaic Valley water treatment plant last night. It was clear, the news would be grim. They had found the body of a woman missing for several days. The discovery led officials to declare a boil water advisory for several...