If you picture a water treatment lab chemist as someone spending all day indoors hunched over vials and test tubes, microscopes and spectrophotometers, you don’t know Leslie Gryder.
As lab chemist for the Lynchburg (Va.) Department of Water Resources, Gryder is just as likely to be found checking source water quality at the reservoir 22 miles from the city, meeting a customer at home to discuss a water-quality issue, or out on the distribution system pulling samples for bacteriological testing to check the potential health effects of a water main break.
It’s the variety of tasks and the changes of scenery that
