Wildwood weighs methamphetamine lab cleanup law

WILDWOOD, Mo. -- The St. Louis County town of Wildwood has given first-round approval to an ordinance requiring decontamination of properties where methamphetamine labs have been found.

Half of the states in the U.S. have passed laws requiring cleanup from meth labs, but not Missouri, even though the state has ranked No. 1 in meth lab seizures every year but one during the last decade.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Wildwood and at least two other St. Louis-area towns -- Festus and Crestwood -- have passed their own cleanup ordinances. Jefferson County also has a decontamination law.

The Wildwood proposal will become law if approved at a second reading.

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Information from: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, http://www.stltoday.com