{"id":3202,"date":"2015-02-03T20:50:18","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T20:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=3202"},"modified":"2015-02-03T20:50:55","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T20:50:55","slug":"highest-radon-danger-in-tx-in-panhandle-hill-country-far-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=3202","title":{"rendered":"Highest Radon Danger in TX in Panhandle, Hill Country &#038; Far West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>by John Michaelson\/TNS<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; It really is a matter of out of sight, out of mind, but radon can pose a health danger for some Texas homeowners, and they\u2019re being reminded of the importance of testing for the invisible and odorless radioactive gas.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Van Deusen, a press officer with the Texas Department of State Health Services, says Texas is not a real high area of concern for radon, but does have some regions where it can be an issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost notably parts of the Panhandle and parts of far west Texas that have kind of a moderate potential for radon and a couple of counties sort of in central Texas, the hill country that are in that category,\u201d he says. \u201cBut most of the state really has a low potential for radon.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3203\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3203\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3203\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/gr-44073-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Mitigating high levels of radon can be as simple as installing a system of PVC piping and a fan. Photo: Chris Peters\/Flickr.\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/gr-44073-1-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/gr-44073-1-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/gr-44073-1-1-405x269.jpg 405w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/gr-44073-1-1-60x40.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3203\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mitigating high levels of radon can be as simple as installing a system of PVC piping and a fan. Photo: Chris Peters\/Flickr.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Radon test kits can be purchased at most hardware stores, and if a home is found to have high levels, the fix can be relatively simple with the installation of a mitigation system.<\/p>\n<p>And for smokers, radon can compound their risk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re talking about breathing in a gas,\u201d Van Deusen points out. \u201cIt\u2019s lung cancer that radon typically causes and that obviously can really increase the chances since smoking is such a risk factor for lung cancer as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo if people are smokers, that may double the reasons to do one of these tests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Radon is a naturally occurring gas that comes up from the ground from the decay of uranium.<\/p>\n<p>January is National Radon Action Month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by John Michaelson\/TNS AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; It really is a matter of out of sight, out of mind, but radon can pose a health danger for some Texas homeowners, and they\u2019re being reminded of the importance of testing for the invisible and odorless radioactive gas. Chris Van Deusen, a press officer with the Texas Department [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3204,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3202\/revisions\/3204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}