26 - Sunday, March 5, 1989 - North Shore News BUSINESS N. Van-based firm offers radon detection services For more information contact Shore Health Department in North EPAI at 983-2888 or the North Vancouver at 988-5231 or in West Vancouver at 922-9136. INCOME TAX PERSONAL ¢ SELF-EMPLOYED SMALL BUSINESS, RENTAL COMMISSION © TRUCKERS 986-3340 RRSP's - GIC’s - RRIF’s CEE TAX SERVICES 116 3RD ST. EAST {above 7-ELEVEN) AGENT FOR FIRST CITY TRUST A NEW North Vancouver- for safe levels are four pCi/L and based company is offering 20 pCi/L respectively. radon detection services for residential, commercial and industrial buildings located throughout B.C. Soil specialists Mano Moslehi, president of Effective Pollution Assessment Inc. (EPAI), originally began offering the service four years ago in San Jose, California. There are also EPAI outlets in Detroit and in San Francisco. 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(EPAI) and EPAI related to radon exposure. vice-president £4 Kban are offering radon detection services for residen- Radon comes from the natural tial, commercial and industrial buildings located throughout B.C. One breakdown of uranium. Potential- method of detection used by the company is to test for levels of radon The Federal Business Development Bank (FBDB) is a Crown Corporation that exists to promote and assist businesses in Canada. ly high concentrations of radon found in charcoal canisters exposed in various areas of a building. may be found in soils containing uranium, black shale, granite and phosphatic rock. Outdoors, radon is safely diluted, but in an enclosed space, radon may accumulate. Moslehi and EPAI vice-presi- dent and engineer Ed Khan deter- mine if the radioactive gas is pres- ent by distributing charcoal canisters throughout the building. The charcoal absorbs any radon and the canisters are then analys- A six-month survey conducted last year by the North Shore Health Department to determine radon levels in area homes con- cluded the local levels of the cancer-causing gas were well below guidelines established by U.S. and Cansdian authorities. The overall average radon leveis determined in the approximately 30 houses tested was 0.55 picocuries (a measurement used to indicate radiocative leveis) per litre (pCi/L). Radon levels determined throughout the Lower Mainland have ranged from 0.36 to 0.70 pci/L. U.S. and Canadian guidelines Tour through the tax forms A TOUR Through the Tax Forms is being offered by the North Van- couver District Library for anyone who would like assistance or moral support before tackling their in- come tax return, The workshop, which is being led by a representative of Revenue ‘as. March 9 at 7:30 pom. Tress > aree, but ps foe -1.4471 as wserve your +. iumited. 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