This oil and the tar balls in this whole mixture going to the landfill. the long-term effects that we will have to endure, if it, in fact, is if, in fact, we do find that it is dangerous to it gets into your water or the water table, absolutely. reporter: keeping them honest, we re asking bp why it s disposed of spill waste in a county that pleaded with them not to. bp wouldn t comment. we asked ken holden to take us inside the landfill so we could see for ourselves why bp, the epa, and waste management all say it s safe. there are many worried that whatever is going in to this landfill from the oil spill is going to end up in their water system and make the community sick. it s an understandable concern because there s a lack of awareness. reporter: this is a nonhazardous waste site. there won t be liquid oil coming here, just solid oil waste. before it s dumped, it s store in the huge containers and analyzed. in the last 24 hours, holden said they dropped more than
See for ourselves why bp, the epa, and waste management all say it s safe. there are many worried that whatever is going in to this landfill from the oil spill is going to end up in their water system and make the community sick. it s an understandable concern because there s a lack of awareness. reporter: this is a nonhazardous waste site. there won t be liquid oil coming here, just solid oil waste. before it s dumped, it s store in the huge containers and analyzed. in the last 24 hours, holden said they dropped more than 150 tons of bp waste into this landfill, 150 tons. if the county didn t want it, why is it here? we appealed to the state and others about. we understand that. we re going to do our utmost to make sure they are familiar with what s going on here. reporter: holden said there s a liner underneath my entire
Hazardous to our citizens. take your waste somewhere else or find an alternative. rocco says the county board passed a resolution not to accept any waste in this community. that doesn t matter, waste management that owns the landfill doesn t have to look at what the board says. it answers to the state. so it signed a contract with bp and started dumping the oily waste right where rocco and plenty of others feared they would. what concerns you most about this oil and the tar balls in this whole mixture going to the landfill. the long-term effects that we will have to endure, if it, in fact, is if, in fact, we do find that it is dangerous to it gets into your water or the water table, absolutely. reporter: keeping them honest, we re asking bp why it s disposed of spill waste in a county that pleaded with them not to. bp wouldn t comment. we asked ken holden to take us inside the landfill so we could
the old one, but it will cause new problems. a little concern. tom foreman joining me now to explain how this will all work. hi. these are the big things to watch this weekend. you have a containment cap down here. collecting the oil. see the pictures of it all time with the oil gushing out from around the sides. there are vents that are open on the side there to let some oil out so they don t have too much pressure to blow it off because it s sitting there. that s what s happening right now. that oil is coming up to a ship above here. they also have oil coming out of a vent in the side here up to another ship and this weekend they re trying to move another ship in to place. they re hoping to maybe add a fourth. overall, this will increase the containment of oil here from right now around 23,000 barrels a day to hopefully 50,000 barrels a day. that brings us to the other important thing to watch this weekend. they re going to replace the cap here. i want to show you a pictu
permanent one. as it works, the new cap, we re told, will collect more oil than the old one, but it will cause new problems. a little concern. tom foreman joining me now to explain how this will all work. hi. these are the big things to watch this weekend. you have a containment cap down here. collecting the oil. see the pictures of it all time with the oil gushing out from around the sides. there are vents that are open on the side there to let some oil out so they don t have too much pressure to blow it off because it s sitting there. that s what s happening right now. that oil is coming up to a ship above here. they also have oil coming out of a vent in the side here up to another ship and this weekend they re trying to move another ship in to place. they re hoping to maybe add a fourth. overall, this will increase the containment of oil here from right now around 23,000 barrels a day to hopefully 50,000 barrels a day. that brings us to the other important thing to watch