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NW Iowa. / SW Arizona | I live in NW Iowa (Cherokee Co.) & I have talked to a number of people in the area that have tested their homes for radon & a number of these people have come back with high radon numbers. The EPA claims that high radon can cause lung cancer over a long period of time. I just checked my house for the first time this past week & just got my results back today. Mine was 6.5 pCi/L which is higer then the recommend rate of 4.0 pCi.L or lower to be safe. I am going to retake it again as they recommend taking another one if one comes back higher then 4.
I picked my testing kit up at our local court house for a cost of $6.00 a test. This includes the mailing the test back to the lab. The person in the office I got the test strip had her house tested & hers came back 30+ . She ended up spending close to $2,000 to try and lower her level. I think it still came at around 15 after doing the improvements. So I feel pretty good about my 6.5 reading.
Anybody else on her have their house tested for radon? The county showed a map of Iowa & NW Iowa was in the hot zone for having high radon readings.
Edited by IOWAMARK 3/8/2012 23:04
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Radon testing
