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Action Newsletter
Fall 2000
Alabama Radon Program Wins Extension's Flagship Award for 2000
The Alabama Cooperative Extension System's radon awareness,
mitigation, and radon-resistant new construction program received state-level
honor—the Natural Resources and Environmental Management's (NREM) National
Flagship Award for 2000. NREM is one of seven base programs of the Cooperative
Extension Service System, whose overall goal is to educate a diverse group
of people to make decisions and take actions that will improve the quality,
productivity, and sustainability of natural resources. Flagship programs
are local, state, or regional Extension programs that highlight the innovative
programs being conducted throughout the United States in natural resource
and environmental management. The state-level award was one of only four
issued by USDA/CSREES in natural resources and environmental management.
The Alabama radon training and awareness program
was offered to all citizens in Alabama counties having the highest incidence
of radon. Topics covered included training on radon, where it comes from,
and how it gets into homes and other buildings; how to mitigate dwellings;
and how builders can build new homes that will have a lower incidence of
radon and soil gasses and reduced moisture levels. During the two years
and nine months of program effort, 2,425 homes were tested for radon, with
520 dwellings (21.4 percent) showing elevated levels of radon.
The national award-winning team included EPA, Southern
Regional Radon Training Center, Alabama Department of Public Health, and
Extension professionals and support personnel. Extension professionals
and support personnel, with their counties, included
Carol Reid (Blount);
Ruth Sarro and Hayes Jackson (Calhoun); Marsha Moorehead and Tom Farrow
(Clay and Cleburne); Marian Beck and Teresa McDonald (Colbert and Lauderdale);
Melinda Luker and Roger Vines (Coosa); Annette Wardrup (DeKalb); Karen
Thompson (Franklin); Lewis Tapley (Jackson); Linda Robinson (Lawrence);
Reetta Christopher (Limestone); Cynthia Whittaker, David Hubbard, and Jackie
Ramsey (Jefferson); Walter Rodgers and Sabrina Hill (Madison); Lisa Murphy
(Marion); Julie Dutton and Betty Colder (Morgan); Angela Treadaway and
Peggy Prucnal (Shelby); Ronny Williams (Talladega); Rebecca Dollman, Clarene
Teague-Johnson (North Alabama Regional Office); Paul Waddy (East Alabama
Regional Office); Warren McCord, Jesse LaPrade, Barbara Mobley, Laura Booth,
and Susan Roberts (State Office, Auburn University).
You can visit the Radon Website at www.aces.edu/dept/crd/radon-pubs.html
© Action Newsletter, Fall 2000. Used with permission.
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