Fwd: [Cob] radon and Happy New Year everybody!!

[Amanda Peck]

I don't think that the original post went to the list.  But my answer was 
general enough that I sent that one to all, having cut out some links that 
came to me because I wasn't going to do that at first.

EPA has maps.

Here--scroll down so you aren't tempted to download huge .pdf files:

http://www.epa.gov/radon/zonemap.html

Kim seems to be in a "don't worry much zone."  I'm in a potentially high 
zone but I think it's not "everywhere" but really really spotty locations 
that are high.  It all depends on geology.  Limestone areas(presumably Karst 
formation--caves and cracks) are the worst.

That's probably true of most of the potentially high areas.  The low areas 
are more likely consistently low, although the EPA says that there ARE 
occasional pockets of radon even in the low areas.

Here are the details from the Alabama Shoals area from about a year ago--and 
that's the most likely area in Alabama to have radon.

http://www.aces.edu/crd/radon/publications/newsarticles/times-daily-1-20-04.htm

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Kim wondered:

i'm getting a whole lot more cob emails lately, which is great, but 
obviously i'm not getting all of them. what was the radon reference? what 
site had maps of radon?