Radon Mitigation in Falcon, CO

Falcon sits east of Colorado Springs along Highway 24, and it is one of the fastest-growing parts of El Paso County. Meridian Ranch, Woodmen Hills, Latigo and the surrounding developments have filled in substantially since 2000, which makes Falcon an unusually young housing market by county standards.

That youth changes the radon conversation in a useful direction. A large share of homes built here after the mid-2000s went up with passive radon systems roughed in during construction, meaning a sealed sub-slab pipe already runs up through the house and terminates above the roof with no fan attached. Converting a passive system to an active one is among the cheapest radon jobs available, often a fraction of a full retrofit. The first thing to do in a Falcon home is walk the utility room or garage and look for that capped pipe.

Do not read newer construction as lower risk. Falcon is on the eastern edge of the same granitic and arkosic material that produces elevated readings across the northern county, and tight modern building envelopes concentrate whatever soil gas enters. Newer homes here test high routinely.

Foundations are mixed. Meridian Ranch and Woodmen Hills carry a lot of full basements, many of them finished, while other pockets are slab-on-grade or have shallow crawl spaces. Some properties are on well and septic, others on district water, which occasionally affects where a system can be routed.

Most of Falcon is unincorporated and permits through El Paso County and the Pikes Peak Regional Building Department. Several subdivisions have active HOAs with architectural review that governs exterior pipe placement and fan location, so confirm those requirements before an installer routes anything along a visible elevation.