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Actually, yes.  And I've never exceeded.   But we are in an area where radon is an issue and the test are cheap, so why not.   But your point is a failure anyway, because these schools *exceeded* and by the regulatory guidelines were supposed to be retested and weren't.  Because MCPS put the test results in a drawer and did nothing about it.  Pathetically incompetent. [/quote]

You get your basement tested for radon every 3 years? Why? How much have the results changed?[/quote]

Minimally. But we did a renovation and we're considering using the basement as a playroom, so it made sense.  The test is easy and cheap.  I'm unusually aware of environmental health issues because of my background (biostatistics) so we are more on top of this stuff than most.  [/quote]

OK, so you retested after conditions changed. Would you still retest every three years if conditions didn't change? And if so, why?

This is not about the EPA's recommendation to retest if the results are above a certain level. This is about the PP's contention that MCPS needs to retest because, for all we know, the results have doubled in the last three years.[/quote]

Yes, they should retest every few years regardless at schools.  But that's not the issue here.  Here, the issue is that they exceeded and still didn't retest!  For years!  Why are you trying to ignore that.  If your position is "people shouldn't panic" then fine.   But if your point is they shouldn't have retested and remediated after these exceeding levels were found, that's indefensible. [/quote]

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