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so we'll be placing these containers these radon canisters
throughout the entire building there's going to be probably
about 43 samples that we're gonna place
and in the rooms in here and it
really based on the size of the building on square footage and then
numbers of classrooms offices that are frequently occupied
and so to place these we just open
the cannister up and that's pretty much it we leave it here we want it to be
undisturbed
under normal classroom conditions
and after 48 hours we'll come back and pick up the samples
and just close them up and send them off to our lab
so what are the health issues towards students to radon
so radon is based off
lot more longer term exposure is when you start seeing health risks
the biggest health risk is potentially lung cancer
and it really just depends on how long someone has been exposed
to the radon and what radon levels are with in each room that
they they've occupied if this was a regular classroom setting
wouldn't you be opening and closing the doors during
a classroom day you would be but we
we wanna we do want to be under normal conditions so that means that
airflow and heating systems are going to be the same as if
when students are here but we do want to keep the doors
and windows all closed during this point because
that's when you'll get the most build up of radon in here
so that kinda more the most exposure
that we possibly get is when those doors and facility rooms are closed
what is in there that detects radon
it is activated charcoal so it will absorb
any of the radon and when we send it to the lab they'll
be able to open it up and test inside of it and so the samples
we have to keep them off the ground at least a minimum of 20
inches off the ground and at a minimum of 12 inches away from an exterior wall
okay let's go play place the rest of these
samples throughout the building
so we've chosen this school
on based upon his location in the Rocky Mountain region and
and this school and another school are going to be considered our pilot test
programs to trial runs at these schools and
hopefully move on to other schools after this
is there a possibility our school was chosen
because of the possibility of radon being here
it is based EPA has mapped the entire country on how
severe levels are potentially in the area this area is a zone 1
which means it's the highest potential to have radon
in this region
these canisters will be in the building for 48 hours
and then you will come back and gather them
yes we'll come back after 48 hours have expired and we will
close up the cannisters reseal them and then place them
in plastic bags and send those off to our lab to get tested
that's all after 48 hours of being in the building
correct yes
the code is 4-5-6-9-2-5
ok
number is
4-5-6-9
6-5 okay that matches
what are you writing so we take a log of each of the samples
so we know which room they are in every building
and we also note their serial number that's on the top of the cannister
and then we also write down what time it is when
we deploy them originally and then when we retrieve them so we know
that it's been 48 hours since we've sat down the canister
when will we know the results so the samples will be sent out to our lab and
It'll take up to two weeks to get the results back
once we have the results we'll write up a findings report
and we'll send that off to Mr. Carl Schwebe at the OFMC
and he will be the one who will be distributing
the results to everyone else at the school and at the facilities as you can see
we put multiple samples in the gym and we do that because
the gym is a larger space and we have to have one sample container for every
2,000 square feet since this gym is larger than that we have three different samples
placed throughout the gym to make sure we count for the square footage
and as you can see here we have two different samples right next to each
other
these one of them is a duplicate sample and one of them is our original sample
and we do this as a measure
that we take to the lab and so since they're sitting right next to each other they
should have a really similar result
and that's how we know an extra control measure that the lab is testing the
space correctly
and that the sample is correct at some schools where faculty live on
the school grounds we may be coming into those houses and sampling for radon as
well
and we'll be sampling in areas that people spend most of their time
so in bedrooms and living rooms
we are St. Stephens Indian School we are BIE
grant funded school we serve the entire Wind River Reservation
surrounding us we are primarily a
Arapaho and Arapaho a enrollment
our enrollment between the elementary school and the
high school is approximately 265 to 275
students