Name:   MAJ USA RET - Subject:   RADON and GLOBAL WARMING Date:   4/7/2014 12:05:01 PM

I am NOT surprised to read that about any of the blue states.

In 1993, we built a custom townhouse in Springfield, VA… just outside the famous “I-495 Beltway.” One of the building requirements for Fairfax County was that we were required to install a 6 inch PVC vent, up through the house to the roof, to allow radon to escape from under the slab in our basement.

The EPA says that anything about 2 pCi/L is “elevated”… yet environmental engineering best practices says that you should consider mitigation measures at 200 pCi/L. I guarantee that any basement or crawl space near or on bedrock (C Horizon) can be made to produce GTE 2 pCi/L if you put the detector in the lowest, deadest corner of the basement for an extended period of time. However… if you chain together all of the slim possibilities (risk factors) I listed above… and you are still afraid… you deserve to be flimflammed by the EPA and the radon mitigation industry!

When, as a CES, I got calls from frantic homeowners, if there was any reason other than regulatory interference… I advised them to calm down… and not to waste money on my inspection or a radon detector routine.