All but a small portion of western Kentucky are in the highest two levels of elevated radon, an odorless invisible naturally occurring gas.
While the EPA suggests every householder test for radon, it is more imperative in the highest two levels. Click this link to see map where Kentucky is.
My mother-in-law, the best person in the world, got us a radon tester for Christmas after she saw news stories about deaths in Kentucky due to radon.
We’re installing it this week and I will let you know what we find, if we have something to fix and how it’s fixed.
What a great Christmas present, don’t you think?
Here’s a blog item from the EPA on radon. It’s worth a minute of your time to read.
– Linda J.
