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Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle

Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

05/16/19

ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE:

Release Date: Thursday, May 16, 2019

ACROSS
1 Expert in Islamic 
law
6 Classroom tools
12 Nation partly in 
the Arctic Circle
14 Left
15 “I didn’t lie!”
16 Select, as a jury
17 Classic 1818 
novel
19 Otoscope target
20 Unnamed 
character in 
17-Across
24 In a calculating 
way
27 Antipoverty agcy.
28 Actor Stephen
29 Prefix with plus
31 Reduce in 
status
35 Author of 
17-Across
37 Slapstick 
reaction
39 Borrow, but not 
really
40 “__ you 
serious?”
41 Talk and talk
43 Namely
47 1974 portrayer 
of 17-Across
52 “__ scale of 1 to 
10 ... ”
53 1931 portrayer 
of 20-Across
56 King in 1 Kings
59 Shoulder piece
60 Like some rural 
bridges
61 July 4, 1776, 
notables
62 Green field?
63 Campus figures

DOWN
1 Kind of heart 
valve
2 Easily led astray
3 Rich dessert
4 Something to do
5 Map box
6 “Did my heart 
love till now?” 
speaker
7 Detach, as a 
dress pattern

8 Isn’t straight
9 Big stretch
10 Deeply regret
11 Mo. town
12 High winds
13 Honolulu-born 
singer
14 Go back for a 
second helping
18 A dandelion’s 
are called 
blowballs
21 Fox NFL 
analyst 
Aikman
22 “Ick!”
23 Fled
25 Future JD’s 
exam
26 Mongolian tent
30 Shaggy rug from 
12-Across
32 Kosovo 
neighbor: Abbr.
33 Surfeit
34 How-to 
presentation
35 Bearing
36 Prominent 
New York City 
feature
37 Give a little

38 Not post-
42 Short dogs, for 
short
44 Like some 
scarves
45 Works out
46 Last family to 
keep a White 
House cow
48 Dangerous virus
49 Lennon love 
song

50 Twist
51 Fleet
54 Heated state
55 Large green 
moth
56 One may 
be choked 
back
57 Dedicatee of 
49-Down
58 __ alone: not to 
mention

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Starting in late 2018, Ann Arbor 
residents have grown increasingly 
concerned 
about 
dioxane 
and 
PFAS contamination in Washtenaw 

County’s drinking water. With Ann 
Arbor residents calling for a more 
transparent reporting system, Ann 
Arbor Water Treatment Manager 
Brian Steglitz released a plan to 
publish 
updated 
water 
quality 
newsletters every month.
Because 
May 
is 
“Water 
Awareness 
Month,” 
Steglitz 
published 
the 
initial 
issue 
of 

“A2H20” on the first of the month. 
To further inform residents about 
water quality, city officials also 
added a page to their website with 
the monthly report, information 
about fire hydrant flushing and 
water rate changes.
In the report, Steglitz mentioned 
dioxane and PFAS infiltration are 
not a new phenomenon.

“Dealing 
with 
water 
contaminants is not new to us,” 
Steglitz wrote. “Throughout my 
tenure of almost 22 years, and in 
the decades preceding, the city 
has successfully addressed and 
overcome several water quality 
challenges.”
In an email to The Daily, Daniel 
Brown, Huron River Watershed 
Council planner, referenced the 
ongoing water crisis in Flint. Now 
more than ever, he suggested, there 
is a need for transparency regarding 
the current state of Ann Arbor’s 
water.
“Post-Flint, it is clear utilities 
need to be proactive in providing 
customers 
with 
as 
much 
information as possible,” Brown 
wrote. “PFAS and 1,4 dioxane 
contamination concerns add to the 
urgency of that messaging in Ann 
Arbor specifically.”
Breeches in 1,4 dioxane — 
classified by the EPA as a likely 
carcinogen — have been an ongoing 
problem in Ann Arbor for over a 
decade. In a 2001 press release, 
Sue 
McCormick, 
former 
Ann 
Arbor Water Utility director, said 
the city found trace amounts of 
dioxane in the water supply during 
a routine test. Now, according to 
the first newsletter published by 
Steglitz, dioxane is at .029 parts per 
trillion (ppt), which is considered 
undetected.
Last summer the Department 
of Environmental Quality found 
traces of PFAS around the state, 

including in the Huron River. Even 
at low levels, consumption of PFAS 
chemicals can lead to a multitude 
of health problems such as a 
higher risk of cancer, a weakened 
immune system and child growth 
impairments. Since 2016, PFAS 
levels in Ann Arbor’s water have 
continued to rise. 
There are 36 confirmed PFAS 
sites in Michigan, according to the 
Michigan Environmental Council. 
However, the Michigan Department 
of Environmental Quality believes 
there could be over 11,300 locations 
statewide could be contaminated.
Since 
then, 
Gov. 
Gretchen 
Whitmer has proposed a PFAS water 
drinking standard to be implemented 
by July 1, 2019. U.S. Rep. Debbie 
Dingell, 
D-Ann 
Arbor, 
echoed 
support for Whitmer’s proposal, 
calling again for the Environmental 
Protection Agency to set a national 
maximum contaminant level for 
all PFAS compounds and distribute 
funds to all contaminated sites.
According to MLive, there was a 
significant spike in PFAS levels in 
Ann Arbor’s water this past March 
reaching up to 41.7 ppt.
However, Lisa Wondrash, Ann 
Arbor 
communications 
director, 
said she wouldn’t consider these past 
three months’ PFAS levels — which 
were all around 4 ppt — to be a spike 
as the water drinking quality goal is 
set at 10 ppt.

City launches water transparency initiative

Ann Arbor residents express satisfaction with new program, call for statewide expansion to ensure quality

SAMANTHA SMALL 
Summer News Editor

MICHAL RUPRECHT 
Daily Staff Reporter

NATALIE STEPHENS/Daily
The Ecology Center holds its annual membership meeting at the Ann Arbor Public 
Library Wednesday evening. 

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