Identifying High Risk Areas in New York State: Mapping Indoor Radon Data
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A project is underway to map die indoor radon potential for New York State at the township level. Through a detector distribution program the New York State Department of Health has a database of over 36,000 basement screening measurements. The address field for the indoor measurement data is being linked to latitude and longitude coordinates using data files containing coordinate information. Using a geographic information system (GIs) the mapped data are being correlated to surficial geology, soils, bedrock geology, and other spatially located information. The combination of indoor measurement averages and correlations to surficial geology and other factors will be used to assign radon risk at the township level.
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