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  • Add radon testing to your New Year health resolution

    a cartoon image of a house sitting on the periodic table. A red banner advertising an upcoming Radon workshop-Forsyth County Extension and Hampton Park Library are partnering to host a UGA Radon Testing Workshop on January 6, 2024.

    Every New Year, the top resolutions focus on aspects of health improvement, like eating healthier, exercising more, or quitting smoking. These are challenging goals that require a long commitment. Testing your home for radon gas, however, is quick, easy, and could have a profound impact on your health. Radon is the 2nd leading cause of…

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  • Radon Action Month

    Radon gas can enter homes through the foundation and cracks in floors and walls.

    Radon is an odorless, colorless gas that kills nearly 21,000 people annually, including over 800 deaths in Georgia each year. Every January, the University of Georgia Radon Program urges Georgians to test for the presence of radon gas in their homes. People who order a test kit online before February 14, 2023, receive a $5…

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  • Radon detected in county well water

    The parts of a radon test laid out on a table.

    Earlier this month, on a property just outside the Cumming city limits, a private well used for household drinking water tested positive for radon. Radon is a radioactive gas that forms naturally when geologic deposits of uranium and radium decay. The odorless, colorless, and tasteless gas can be released from underground rocks like granite.

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