County Ordinance Requires Clean-Up Or Tear Down Of Homes Formerly Housing Meth Labs

In Kanawha County, West Virginia, The State Journal reports:

• Five years after a meth lab bust, a Kanawha County mobile home [...] was boarded up Monday. It took so long because the bust happened three years prior to the passage of a county ordinance which requires property owners to clean up the meth or the property is torn down. Neither the county, tenant nor landlord knew of the home's criminal past until Monday. "We acted when we found out about it," said David Armstrong, the deputy emergency services director for the county's planning and community development office. "If I don't know about it, I can't fix it." The tenant [...] brought the lab's history to light after searching federal court records.

For more, see How To Find Out If You're Living In a Former Meth Home.

See also, WOWK-TV Channel 13: Family Lived in Former Meth House for 4 Years (The tenant and her daughter, who were living with 29 times the acceptable limits of meth residue, are now homeless).

For a related post on meth labs and the problems they cause in homes that once housed them, see The Invisible Legacy Left In Homes Used As Meth Labs.

Check the the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency's (DEA) National Clandestine Laboratory Register for (what the DEA admits to being) an incomplete list of possible locations of former neighborhood meth labs that have been reported to the DEA by local and Federal law enforcement authorities.

Go here for some methamphetamine information resources.

Go here and go here for other posts on home based meth labs. meth lab zeta