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Radon Testing in Genola

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Genola · Morrison County

Radon Testing in Genola

Radon Testing in Genola, Morrison County, by Closer Look Inspectors. Genola is a Soo Line station town platted in 1908 as New Pierz, on the Skunk River.

Radon testing places an EPA-protocol continuous monitor on a home's lowest livable level to measure radon gas — and it matters across Minnesota, where more than two in five homes test above the action level.

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Local housing

Homes in Genola.

Genola housing runs to early-1900s railroad-town houses and later mid-century homes, with newer houses along Highway 25, across the small townsite beside Highway 25, with Pierz bordering it to the north and the Skunk River on its east edge, on glacial drift plain along the Skunk River in east-central Morrison County — and that mix shapes what a radon testing here needs to find.

Local conditions in Genola

Genola does not run a point-of-sale housing ordinance, which makes an independent inspection the only thorough, buyer-side read on the home. Genola sits in Morrison County, in EPA Radon Zone 2 — a moderate county rating, but MDH reports more than two in five Minnesota homes have radon levels that pose a significant health risk, and a county zone never predicts one house. Finished basements concentrate radon, and only a 48-hour test tells you the number. Footings here must reach the five-foot depth Minnesota Rules 1303.1600 require in the state's northern frost zone, and that annual freeze-thaw cycle is what drives the settlement cracks, frost heave and ice-dam wear that Genola-area homes face.

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Questions

Common questions.

Is radon really a concern in Minnesota?
Yes. The Minnesota Department of Health reports that more than two in five Minnesota homes have radon levels that pose a significant health risk, and finished basements are where it concentrates.
How long does the test run?
A 48-hour minimum under closed-house conditions; the result is delivered with your inspection report.
Genola was platted as New Pierz — how does the Soo Line past show up?
Genola was platted in 1908 as New Pierz on the Soo Line, renamed in 1915 after a town in Piedmont, Italy, and it once had a post office, saloon and bank. Its population peaked at 156 in 1920 and fell to 68 by 1930, so the housing is a small older core rather than a large one. Foundation movement, old wiring and plumbing, roof age and moisture near the Skunk River side of town matter here, as does whether wells and septic are still in good use.
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