The reading she got was about 47 picocuries per liter, so she took out a loan to pay for the $2,000 mitigation system. Gerlach said she supports taking action on radon in Allentown, ...

The highest was Farr West, where 118 tests showed an average measurement of 24.7 picocuries per liter. Robbins’ home city of Lehi has elevated risk, according to the results.

The highest was Farr West, where 118 tests showed an average measurement of 24.7 picocuries per liter. Robbins’ home city of Lehi has elevated risk, according to the results.

The basements of homes tested in the Germansville area of Lynn Township had the highest average levels of radon of anywhere in the Lehigh Valley, at 26.5 picocuries per liter.

By last week, the concentration in the monitoring well had decreased to 2.47 million picocuries per liter, said Kirk Koudelka, an assistant commissioner at the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency.

In an update on Monday, Xcel says one of its monitoring wells near the Mississippi River detected a tritium increase at 19,800 picocuries per liter, which is just below the EPA standard for ...

Although the detection at Hope Creek was much higher, a dose from consuming water at 1,600 picocuries per liter, the NRC has reported, is 1,000 times lower than exposure to natural background ...

The highest result was 20.6 picocuries per liter, or pCi/L. Yet even that is chump change compared with an address in Bonner County that tallied 165.5 picocuries per liter on Feb. 18, ...

Owners of homes that return a result of four picocuries or greater are urged to install a radon mitigation system. The decision to install a system was easy for Marla Brannum.

Nixon says 4 picocuries is safe. Radon can get into the house through the cracks in the foundation or walls, among other ways. Most Western Pennsylvania counties are in radon zones 1 or 2, ...