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>> as just a human being, the idea of gigantic pits full of hog waste is a gross seeming thing, even in the best of times. in this case, thinking about those things being inundated with floodwaters and then spread, it's obviously viscerally uncomfortable because we can imagine what those things are like. what's the danger of toxicity and pollution? >> hog lagoons can have bacteria other things that wouldn't be great if you were to come into contact with them or drink them. can contaminate sources of drinking water. but it's not just hog waste floating around in the water. one of the pictures y...

Pork-producing state. roughly 9 million hogs on farms all around north carolina. back in 1999 during hurricane floyd, dozens of what are called hog lagoons, big lagoons, filled with toxic hog waste ended up swamped by floyd. they sent toxic waste downstream, polluted wildlife in a big way. as of yesterday, 77 hog lagoons, quote, have either released pig waste into the environment or are at eminent risk of doing so. that's more than double the count from the day before when the number was just 34. today, according to the state, the number of hog lagoons that have structural damage or have alrea...

Floating around that people have no choice but to make contact with if they're trying to get back into their homes and when they get to their homes, they may find that that contamination is washed in. >> arecontamination has washed in. >> are steps being taken to sort of protect residents here, to at least advise people about potential contamination in the flood waters? i'm thinking not only near the industrial sites or the large scale alcultural sites you're talking about but also there's been landfills of toxic kolash. >> i would think people in the carolinas are intimately familiar with hog...

Country. they have over three million head of hog and a lot of those hogs are going to be wiped out because of the storm. you can only do so much to protect the hog crop and with this incredible flooding you're probably going to lose millions and millions of pigs and hogs because of the storm. and it's even deeper because this could cause a huge environmental disaster in this area, neil, because north carolina uses a lot of that hog waste to turn into fertilizer for a later date. so they have these huge pits where they store a lot of this waste and when you get this big flooding in there it ac...