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What's the deal with this? I thought this was a non issue. None of us have had our homes checked for radon when getting inspected. Is this telling us otherwise?
Years ago I was looking in the Poconos PA for a vacation home. First house I went to had an exhaust fan on the side of the house. I asked the R.E. Agent what it was. He said “The fan goes on when there are high levels of radon”. “Nothing to worry about. (Yeah sure!)
Just what I want to hear going on as I’m watching TV.
Well, I researched Radon when I got home. PA has VERY high levels of radon. Radon is one of the main causes of lung cancer. No wonder you hear people say “But they never smoked a day in their life”. Yeah...well, did they live in areas with high levels of radon? I asked the locals, they had NO CLUE what I was talking about.
Anyway, L.I. has very little to no radon. Due to sand deep in the soil. I believe our is .05%
4% and lower is acceptable. PA had 7%+++
I'd worry about Radon when the banks ask for testing before giving a mortgage on properties (as they do now only for termites and other wood destroying insects).
Years ago I was looking in the Poconos PA for a vacation home. First house I went to had an exhaust fan on the side of the house. I asked the R.E. Agent what it was. He said “The fan goes on when there are high levels of radon”. “Nothing to worry about. (Yeah sure!)
Just what I want to hear going on as I’m watching TV.
Well, I researched Radon when I got home. PA has VERY high levels of radon. Radon is one of the main causes of lung cancer. No wonder you hear people say “But they never smoked a day in their life”. Yeah...well, did they live in areas with high levels of radon? I asked the locals, they had NO CLUE what I was talking about.
Anyway, L.I. has very little to no radon. Due to sand deep in the soil. I believe our is .05%
4% and lower is acceptable. PA had 7%+++
Read the article - you can’t generalize about location either, it can differ lot to lot. The fact that one home in Huntington had over 20 in their basement is notable. The north shore is rockier.
Two other points
1) there is no acceptable level of radon. 4 is the EPA recommended level for remediation. It’s all about risk vs cost
2) a lot of the risk numbers assume living in that area. If radon in the basement is 7 but upstairs is 2, this is really only a problem if you live in the basement. But if you have a level of 20 in the basement then it’s likely to still be high on the main floor.
Read the article - you can’t generalize about location either, it can differ lot to lot. The fact that one home in Huntington had over 20 in their basement is notable. The north shore is rockier.
Two other points
1) there is no acceptable level of radon. 4 is the EPA recommended level for remediation. It’s all about risk vs cost
2) a lot of the risk numbers assume living in that area. If radon in the basement is 7 but upstairs is 2, this is really only a problem if you live in the basement. But if you have a level of 20 in the basement then it’s likely to still be high on the main floor.
“you can’t generalize about location either, it can differ lot to lot.”
So true! Because I’ve asked “Then why doesn’t the rest of the neighbors have them”
Those sample sizes are really small too. Only 62 homes tested in the township (not village) of Smithtown? The Town of Smithtown includes not only Smithtown but Head of the Harbor, Nissequogue, Village of the Branch, Kings Park, part of Fort Salonga, St. James, Nesconset, part of Hauppauge, part of Commack, and part of Lake Ronkonokoma.
I'd like to know where those 62 "Town of Smithtown" basement test houses were. In the northern part of the the Town of Smithtown (north of Jericho Tpke and/or 25A) I'd expect some readings to be a bit higher than the parts of Smithtown that are close to Vets Highway, for example, where you have flat terrain instead of hilly/rocky like North Smithtown, KP, H of H, and Nissequogue.
Yes, radon there is just like coastal Connecticut (high) because they have the same geology. There's a part of RI near Fall River that's low, like LI is.
Massachusetts is similar, with most of the state being high or moderate in radon but the Boston area is low.
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