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Extracted from Consolidated Report
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El Dorado County Grand Jury
• 2009-2010
El Dorado County Environmental Management Radon Awareness Program
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Findings 2 findings
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The County Environmental Management Radon Awareness Program, designed to be completed in February 2008, incorporated 18 actions (see attachment). The complainant indicated that a minimal number of those activities had been completed as of early 2009. Our investigation revealed that the County Department of Environmental Health, by their own admission, had yet to complete about 50% of those program components. They cited both financial and human resource reductions as the partial cause of their failure to complete the program as written.
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The County Radon Program depends, in part, on materials and information from the State of California Department of Public Health. That department has been slow in providing key mapping and other data that this County could use to better manage the radon program. 25
Recommendations 5
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R1Page 8The Grand Jury recommends that the El Dorado County Environmental Management Department implement the Radon Awareness Program in the manner and intent in which it was developed and written.
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R2Page 8The Grand Jury recommends that the El Dorado County Department of Environmental Management seek support from the Board of Supervisors to help reduce the time delays in providing appropriate information to our County from the State Department of Public Health.
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R3Page 8Inform community members as to various methods/sources for home radon testing. • Display test kits at local lumber and hardware stores
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R4Page 8Encourage community members to test homes for radon. • Provide coupons for free test kits (if available from State) Promote State program for $5 test kits • Work with Middle School/High School Science teachers to do radon project with their students-test their homes and track results
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R5Page 8Inform community members on Radon Reduction Methods • Send letters to survey participants with radon results at or above action level • Provide copies of "How to Fix Your Home" • Consider providing workshop for homeowners • Expand list of State Certified Radon Mitigators 6 Encourage builders to include "Radon Resistant New Construction" (RRNC) in the construction of new homes. • Workshop for contractors, architects, engineers on methods of RRNC • Recommend to Development Services the adoption of a RRNC code for Tahoe area (similar to