Re: Colorado natural background levels - what are the numbers?

[Ruth Sponsler <jk5554@YAHOO.COM>]

I have tried to find these numbers myself and the only

estimates I have found were from the Denver area from

NCRP Report no. 94.  



I've visited the Newnet site and I found data for a

number of locations in in northern New Mexico and

Alaska.  The altitudes in northern N.M. are fairly

respectable - many of the towns are at 6,000-7,500

feet in elevation.  Perhaps northern N.M. is a rough

comparison to Colorado, but it would still be neat to

have a set of actual numbers for Colorado that

encompasses a spectrum of altitudes (examples)



*Denver - somewhere in some nice housing tract

*Central City

*Aspen

*Leadville - altitude, altitude, altitude :-) 

*Grand Junction or close thereabouts



'Twould be neat to have actual measurements not just

outdoors but also inside of wooden houses, traditional

adobe houses, etc.  



I wonder if this relatively simple project has ever

been done in Colorado?  



~Ruth 2



On another note - to the folks with Newnet - are you

looking to expand Newnet outside of the current areas

if volunteer folks are available? 



====================================================

NCRP Report No. 94.  1988.  Exposure of the Population

in the United States and Canada from Natural

Background Radiation.  National Council on Radiation

Protection and Measurements.  Bethesda, MD.





--- "Erik F. Shores" <eshores@LANL.GOV> wrote:

> At 04:58 PM 3/4/2002 -0500, dkosloff1 wrote:

> >Is there any

> >government official who will tell the truth about

> the high natural

> >background dose areas in Colorado (name and phone

> number or email address)

> >or a web site that has that information?  Does

> anybody know why this

> >information is being surpressed?

> >

> >Somebody in Pittsburgh has set up a G-M meter with

> a real time readout on

> >the web.

> >http://www.metafire.com/radmonitor/index.html

> >Has anyone done that in Colorado or Wyoming?  I

> have done several web

> >searchs and found no accurate infomation on

> Colorado.

 

> http://newnet.lanl.gov/













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