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