A: Boil Water Advisory is a recommendation made to residents in a place to only drink tap water if it has been boiled for at least one minute. This recommendation is made to the town to protect the health of its people.
Those counties with the highest potential are designated as Zone 1; those with the lowest comprise Zone 3. Zone 1 areas have predicted average radon levels at or above the EPA's 4.0 pico-Curies per liter (pCi/L) action level. (pCi/L is a measure of the amount of radioactivity in a known quantity of air.) If you are building in a Zone 1 county, you should include a radon control system in your new home. It is an inexpensive addition to the total cost of your house and is an easy way to protect you and your family. To determine which radon zone your new house will be built, please contact your state radon office. Top of page
Concurrent range zone and partial range zone (ISG, Figure b and c): The interval between the documented lowest occurrence of one taxon and the documented highest occurrence of another taxon. Concurrent range zone is used when the fossil occurrence results in stratigraphic overlap of the taxa (Figure b).When such occurrences do not result in stratigraphic overlap, the interval zone may be called a partial range zone (Figure c).3. The zone, or biozone, is the fundamental unit of biostratigraphic classification. A zone may be divided into subzones and/or grouped into superzones. Each biozone is given a unique name, which is compound and designates the kind of biozone.