Does anyone else find levels in Richland WA alarming?

I wouldn't worry about the Richland monitor. As mentioned
in the response from James DeMeo, if other monitors in the
area are working and showing normal levels, things are fine.

A couple of other monitors that are swinging wildly are
Fresno & Bakersfield, Calif and Amarillo, Texas. They show
swings between 25-850, 25-425 and 150-550 respectively.

http://www.epa.gov/japan2011/rert/radnet-fresno-bg.html

http://www.epa.gov/japan2011/rert/radnet-bakersfield-bg.html

http://www.epa.gov/japan2011/rert/radnet-amarillo-bg.html

The EPA page does say:
"Electrical interference can cause spikes, shown on graphs as one point significantly higher than the rest of the data."

I don't know if it's electical interference or defective
monitors.

Speaking of Richland...

I didn't know there was a uranium fuel plant in Richland.

That's news to me:

http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/newsarticle.aspx?id=20500

So should the folks in Richland be worried considering they spiked at 500 cpm for three days in the beginning of April and have not had ANY reading since????
I've included this link to a blog run by James Demeo, a Biophysicist doing independant readings in Oregon...
"So long as these citizen-run networks show low levels across all those stations, one should not get panicked, in spite of some of the rather wild claims which are circulating on the conspiracy websites (ie, the chameleon Alex Jones and crew). If a significant number of them begin showing regional readings at or above ~100 cpm even over one single day, even for just a few stations in the same region, then you can worry plenty. However, throughout this entire critical situation, so far the only places on the planet which have shown such a situation are in Japan or within a short distance surrounding it. People are rationally expressing concerns about radiation accumulation in the water, soils or food chain in North America, and that might eventually turn out to be of long-term consideration. But right now that is not the case, and there also is a considerable irresponsible alarmism at work, often created by some of the same conspiracy websites which claim the earthquakes were "caused by HAARP" and the "Evil USA" (and which before the earthquake-disaster were preoccupied with "911 trutherism", "chemtrails", "international cabals", "illuminati", etc.). A bit of skepticism towards both government and anti-government, and a lot of self-education on the issues surrounding low- and high-level radiation exposure, would appear to be the most healthy and productive path. The only conspiracy at work in this entire matter has been the irresponsibility of the nuclear power plant vendors and operators, who have a long history of documented deceit, accidents, disasters, and cover-ups. And as we see in Japan itself, these same people are going be put under the spotlight for what happened. It appears very unlikely any new nuclear power plants will be constructed on planet Earth for the next 50 years."
-James DeMeo

http://obrl.blogspot.com/

that Richmond graph has not worked since 3/30. The EPA is going a great job in fixing/maintaining their devices. Wonder what is so difficult to replace non functioning devices with functioning ones.