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<DIV><div class=WordSection1><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>FYI. An investigative piece on cleanup of hotel/motel rooms that have been used as one-night shake-and-bake meth labs<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>John L. (Jack) Price</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>Environmental Manager<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>Waste Reduction MS 4555<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>Florida Department of Environmental Protection<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>2600 Blair Stone Road<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>Tallahassee, FL 32399-2400<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>Phone:850.245.8751<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>Fax: 850.245.8811<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="mailto:john.l.price@dep.state.fl.us"><span style='color:#9D454F'>john.l.price@dep.state.fl.us</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.dep.state.fl.us/waste"><span style='color:#9D454F'>www.dep.state.fl.us/waste</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.firstcoastnews.com/topstories/article/281213/483/What-happened-in-Room-216">http://www.firstcoastnews.com/topstories/article/281213/483/What-happened-in-Room-216</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>video available also.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Meth production creates a toxic legacy for hotels and motels, and may pose a hazard for travelers in Florida<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><h6><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>11:56 PM, Nov 5, 2012 | </span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></h6><h6><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Written by<o:p></o:p></span></h6><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.firstcoastnews.com/inside/contactus/default.aspx">Anne Schindler</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><img alt="http://www.firstcoastnews.com/images/300/169/2/assetpool/images/121105114212_meth.JPG" border=0 height=169 id="ctl14_ArticleImage" src="cid:image003.jpg@01CDBC1D.6DF94AA0" width=300><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:10.8pt'><strong><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666'>TUESDAY HEADLINES</span></strong><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.15in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.15in;margin-left:0in;line-height:13.2pt'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2C2C2C'>ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. -- When St. Johns County Sheriff's deputies knocked on Room 216 at St. Augustine's Super 8 Motel Sept. 20, they say <a href="http://staugustine.firstcoastnews.com/news/news/83556-three-men-arrested-after-active-meth-lab-found-motel" target="_blank"><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#004276;text-decoration:none'>the three men inside had only been there a few hours</span></strong></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.15in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.15in;margin-left:0in;line-height:13.2pt'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2C2C2C'>But the methamphetamine operation already underway may have polluted the room for future hotel guests. It's a problem that could happen in virtually any hotel room you and your family check into.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.15in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.15in;margin-left:0in;line-height:13.2pt'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2C2C2C'>So First For You, we hired an independent meth cleanup company to thoroughly test local apartments and hotel rooms -- including Room 216. While wearing protective gear, meth lab tech Danny Wheeler gathered wipe samples from the walls, ceilings and AC vents.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.15in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.15in;margin-left:0in;line-height:13.2pt'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2C2C2C'>The rooms <em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>looked </span></em>clean.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.15in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.15in;margin-left:0in;line-height:13.2pt'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2C2C2C'>Wheeler concedes he didn't see any indicators of meth activity. "No telltale signs at all ... If I was to walk in to say, 'Hey is this a meth lab, I would probably walk out and say 'no.'"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.15in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.15in;margin-left:0in;line-height:13.2pt'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2C2C2C'>But the wipe samples of Room 216 came back "hot." In other words, the chemical residue from that meth-making operation exceeded cleanup standards in 14 of the 22 states that have regulations.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.15in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.15in;margin-left:0in;line-height:13.2pt'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2C2C2C'>"The ones that were meth labs should not have been occupied. That just confuses me a little. I was taught they are shut down until they are decontaminated," Wheeler said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.15in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.15in;margin-left:0in;line-height:13.2pt'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2C2C2C'>Problem is, there are no state cleanup standards in Florida. Duval and Hillsborough are the only counties in the state that have meth cleanup laws. And the federal Environmental Protection Agency only has voluntary standards.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.15in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.15in;margin-left:0in;line-height:13.2pt'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2C2C2C'>Which means that hotels in some of the state's most popular destinations -- St. Augustine, Orlando, Miami -- may offer little protection to unsuspecting travelers. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.15in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.15in;margin-left:0in;line-height:13.2pt'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2C2C2C'>Jane Patel, owner of the Super 8 along with two other area hotels, says the staff did clean the rooms before re-renting them.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.15in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.15in;margin-left:0in;line-height:13.2pt'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2C2C2C'>"We went into the room, cleaned out everything -- all the linens and everything was stripped, beds were wiped, walls were wiped, carpets were shampooed."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.15in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.15in;margin-left:0in;line-height:13.2pt'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2C2C2C'>But just cleaning a space doesn't remove all pollutants. Meth, or methamphetamine, is made by distilling common, over the counter drugs with highly reactive and toxic chemicals. The process creates an average of six pounds of hazardous waste for every pound of the drug made.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.15in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.15in;margin-left:0in;line-height:13.2pt'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2C2C2C'>And the vapors contaminate everything -- carpets, furniture, drywall. The contamination has been known to cause a range of health effects, from breathing problems and migraines to liver damage, even cancer.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.15in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.15in;margin-left:0in;line-height:13.2pt'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2C2C2C'>Wheeler notes the potential for the contamination to spread.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.15in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.15in;margin-left:0in;line-height:13.2pt'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2C2C2C'>"To have a meth lab and then to clean it up and vacuum the floor and then occupy it -- if it was a meth lab, well that vacuum cleaner you used to vacuum the floor, now you cross-contaminated how many rooms because you used that same vacuum cleaner to clean room 10, room 9, room 8, room 7 -- you see what I'm saying?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.15in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.15in;margin-left:0in;line-height:13.2pt'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2C2C2C'>It's a growing problem for hotels and motels, which are easy targets for transient drug operations.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.15in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.15in;margin-left:0in;line-height:13.2pt'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2C2C2C'>Homestead Studio Suites Hotel in Baymeadows <a href="http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=247075" target="_blank"><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#004276;text-decoration:none'>was busted in March</span></strong></a>. Last year, it was <a href="http://staugustine.firstcoastnews.com/news/crime/meth-lab-found-st-augustine-motel-room/53775" target="_blank"><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#004276;text-decoration:none'>a Scottish Inn in St. Augustine</span></strong></a>. And in just a three-month period in Jacksonville this summer, police broke up meth operations at three separate Motel 6 locations.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.15in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.15in;margin-left:0in;line-height:13.2pt'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2C2C2C'>When we tried to rent the room at the <a href="http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=260966" target="_blank"><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#004276;text-decoration:none'>Motel 6 on Youngerman Circle</span></strong></a> in Orange Park to test it, we were told it was "unavailable." But there are no state laws to keep a motel owner from renting the room within hours of a bust.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.15in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.15in;margin-left:0in;line-height:13.2pt'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2C2C2C'>Such was the case with room 216 at the St. Augustine Super 8, a motel popular with customers of the nearby Outlet Malls.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.15in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.15in;margin-left:0in;line-height:13.2pt'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2C2C2C'>When we arrived to check in -- 12 days after the meth lab was discovered -- we snapped this picture of the room before its scheduled maid service. Clearly, it had been in use. And it was rented to us just an hour later.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.15in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.15in;margin-left:0in;line-height:13.2pt'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2C2C2C'>Owner Jane Patel acknowledges the room was back in use soon after the bust. But she has no desire to put her customers at risk.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.15in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.15in;margin-left:0in;line-height:13.2pt'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2C2C2C'>"I didn't think we need to, because we've done everything we could as far as wiping down, cleaning carpet."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.15in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.15in;margin-left:0in;line-height:13.2pt'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2C2C2C'>After we showed her our test results, she said she would re-clean the room and let it air out. Meth experts say that's not enough. But right now, there's nothing to make hotels do more -- and no way your family would know.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.15in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.15in;margin-left:0in;line-height:13.2pt'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2C2C2C'>************<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.15in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.15in;margin-left:0in;line-height:13.2pt'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2C2C2C'>So what should you do? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.15in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.15in;margin-left:0in;line-height:13.2pt'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2C2C2C'>First, a simple Google search should turn up any busts at a hotel you'd like to stay in, no matter what the city. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.15in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.15in;margin-left:0in;line-height:13.2pt'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2C2C2C'>Second, the federal DEA has a website (<a href="http://www.justice.gov/dea/clan-lab/fl.pdf" target="_blank"><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#004276;text-decoration:none'>http://www.justice.gov/dea/clan-lab/fl.pdf</span></strong></a>) that lists some locations of some clandestine drug labs -- though most agree it represents only a fraction of the total.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.15in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.15in;margin-left:0in;line-height:13.2pt'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2C2C2C'>Finally, if you are concerned, ask. While there may not be legal obligations, the hotel or motel has moral ones. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.15in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.15in;margin-left:0in;line-height:13.2pt'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2C2C2C;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow'>There's also growing pressure on lawmakers to do something to protect Florida residents and tourists. Incoming Senate President <a href="http://www.flsenate.gov/senators/s4" target="_blank"><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#004276;text-decoration:none'>Don Gaetz</span></strong></a> and his son, <a href="http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/sections/representatives/details.aspx?MemberId=4478" target="_blank"><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#004276;text-decoration:none'>Rep. Matt Gaetz</span></strong></a>, have asked the state Department of Business and Professional Regulation to implement emergency rules governing disclosure and cleanup.</span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2C2C2C'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.15in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.15in;margin-left:0in;line-height:13.2pt'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2C2C2C'>The letter notes:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.15in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.15in;margin-left:0in;line-height:13.2pt'><em><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2C2C2C'>"Tourism is a bedrock of Florida's economy. We cannot operate in an environment where visitors could unwillingly and unknowingly be placed in a hotel or motel room, caked with toxic chemicals, that we would not allow law enforcement to enter without protective masks and hazmat suits." </span></em><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2C2C2C'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.15in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.15in;margin-left:0in;line-height:13.2pt'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2C2C2C'>Read their full letter <a href="http://richmedia.onset.freedom.com/nwfdn/m9sd2q-4motelmeth.pdf"><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#004276;text-decoration:none'>here</span></strong>.</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.15in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.15in;margin-left:0in;line-height:13.2pt'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2C2C2C'>Find and contact your own lawmaker at <a href="http://www.flsenate.gov/senators/find" target="_blank"><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#004276;text-decoration:none'>http://www.flsenate.gov/senators/find</span></strong></a> and <a href="http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/sections/representatives/myrepresentative.aspx" target="_blank"><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#004276;text-decoration:none'>http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/sections/representatives/myrepresentative.aspx</span></strong></a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.15in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.15in;margin-left:0in;line-height:13.2pt'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2C2C2C'>First Coast News <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Linda Frohock</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Senior Management Analyst II</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Division of Waste Management</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Florida Department of Environmental Protection</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>2600 Blair Stone Road, MS 4500</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Tallahassee, Florida 32399-2400</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>850-245-8694</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>FAX: 850-245-8703</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Email: </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="mailto:linda.frohock@dep.state.fl.us">linda.frohock@dep.state.fl.us</a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></DIV>
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