The following courses have been put on by the Western Regional Radon Training Center and sponsored by the South Dakota Department of Environment and Natural Resources. A total of four downlink sites will be available, located in the cities of Pierre, Rapid City, Sioux Falls, and Watertown. Radon is a naturally occurring, radioactive soil gas that is responsible for as many as 30,000 lung cancer deaths per year. Outdoors, radon poses little hazard. But, in some structures, it can build to health threatening levels.
Radon is easy and inexpensive to test for and fix.
Once fixed, a house that had high radon levels is much safer to live in. This training class is being offered in an effort to assist and educate the state's real estate professionals about radon in the real estate industry. The class instructor will be from the Western Regional Radon Training Center, located at the University of Colorado, and will be tailored to the real estate professional. Attendees will be provided with course materials and will earn four continuing education hours. Instruction will be broadcast from the SD School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City and will be downlinked to the Lake Area Technical Institute in Watertown, the Capitol in Pierre and the Southeast Technical Institute in Sioux Falls.