Should I have my house tested for EMF?
Most homes are far enough from the high voltage power lines that they would be outside of this field strength that would be of a concern. So if your home is more than 300 feet, or roughly a football field away from these distribution lines that are coming into neighborhoods with multiple wires and multiple arms, if you're more than 300 feet away from those, you are outside of its force field. You don't have to test for EMF. But if you are within 300 feet then you probably should find out what the Milligauss level, which is the unit of measure of the magnetic field strength, what the Milligauss level is at your home. Especially if you have young children, because again that is the major health concern, the association between magnetic fields and childhood leukemia. And it's a fairly easy test to do, although most people don't have the equipment to do that test sitting around their house. Rather you call the utility, and the utilities are usually pretty good about coming out and giving you a reading. It's a fast test, you can get real time measurement in this part of the yard versus over here on your back porch versus over here where the kids play. And readings that are significantly above background, and by background we mean anywhere from say 1 - 10 Milligauss, so if you're above that range, you are clearly above what is the background level, because there is some EMF in every home. There's EMF that can come from electric blankets, a running washing machine, a TV set, compute monitor -- but if you're above 1 - 10 Milligauss on an average basis everywhere in your yard, that's above background and that is something you might want to do something about.
