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The lab team at the West Brunswick Regional Wastewater Treatment Facility includes, from left, Anna leRoux, supervisor; Dana Nelson, technician; and Brian Blanton, technician/pretreatment coordinator.
As a child Anna leRoux was mesmerized by the laboratories depicted in horror films. She knew instinctively that was her environment, not to create monsters, but to analyze microbes.
She used the microscope in her beginning chemistry set to study organisms growing on neglected food...