{"id":100099,"date":"2016-05-05T07:30:50","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T12:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=100099"},"modified":"2016-05-05T08:15:33","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T13:15:33","slug":"high-radon-levels-common-in-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=100099","title":{"rendered":"High radon levels common in area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-100100\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/radontest-kit.bmp\" alt=\"radontest kit\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>Jamestown (CSi) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radonzone.com\/?gclid=CKe0mKr4wswCFQERaQodm4MI3w\" target=\"_blank\">High radon levels <\/a>are common in homes in Stutsman County, according to an inspector with First Choice Home Inspections.<\/p>\n<p>Darcy Herman,has tested has a radon level that is above what is considered a health risk. The high radon levels are found either in the basement or another part of the house.<\/p>\n<p>He found one home in Jamestown that tested below 4 picocuries.<\/p>\n<p>The average outdoor radon level is 0.4 picocuries per liter of air (pCi\/L), according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. An indoor level of 2 pCi\/L is a health risk and anything 4 pCi\/L or higher is a health hazard.<\/p>\n<p>North Dakota is considered a Zone 1 state, with all counties having a predicted average indoor radon level greater than 4 pCi\/L, according to the EPA. The odorless, radioactive gas comes from decaying uranium that seeps out of the ground and is a health risk as a carcinogen when it accumulates inside buildings.<\/p>\n<p>He adds, that Radon abatement can be as simple as a polyethylene sheet<\/p>\n<p>Free radon tests are available to pick up at Central Valley Health Distric in Jamestown.<\/p>\n<p>Free radon kits are also available from the Department of Health. Do-it-yourself radon mitigation videos can be seen at ndhealth.gov under radon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown (CSi) High radon levels are common in homes in Stutsman County, according to an inspector with First Choice Home Inspections. Darcy Herman,has tested has a radon level that is above what is considered a health risk. The high radon levels are found either in the basement or another part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":100119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100099"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100104,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100099\/revisions\/100104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/100119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}