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RE: Colorado natural background levels - what are the numbers?
I believe there would be passed a city ordinance in Aspen/Vail to prohibit
publication of such measurements. What kind of message would that send by
the Christies of the world who use those cities as their personal
playgrounds? Not to mention the impact on property values. They would look
like such hypocrites! ;) (I had to read the Leadville note twice; I thought
you had put "attitude" on the wrong city at first.)
Jack Earley
Radiological Engineer
-----Original Message-----
From: Ruth Sponsler [mailto:jk5554@YAHOO.COM]
Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 4:27 PM
To: Erik F. Shores; dkosloff1; Radsafe (E-mail)
Subject: Re: Colorado natural background levels - what are the numbers?
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?
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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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