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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 ...

Be created because of alternative energy sources and then we funnel it down to a guy who's lost his shrimp boat. >> what's your message? >> been from one great disaster to another. been in haiti for a while. and there, you can see the resilience. here there's an interesting thing because so many people love to come down and pick this stuff up and take it off. they're not sure there's science involved and there's health issues involved. so it builds the frustration. >> people are mad about this. and they -- everybody understands that. and i think channeling that anger to something positive is t...

There's oil that's gushing, we're going to have problems. so, they just want this well to be fixed. they want it to be capped and contained. they want the final solution to this. not only him, but i was speaking to the mayor of long beach where they saw tar balls several days ago. they saw huge tar patties break up before coming ashore. he said the same thing. this has to be fixed. the problem has to be fixed to keep on living the life we were living before. every day they have to clean off tar balls from the beach and the oil in the marshes. the crux has to be they have to seal the swell and ...

Parts of the world, making life changing decisions for folks down here. randi kaye discovered a smelly mess from one community. they don't want it there. they passed a resolution, saying so, but bp, headquartered in london, and an operator headquartered in houston, dumped it on them anyway. how did it happen? how could it happen? randi kaye is keeping it honest. >> reporter: if you've been wondering where all that scooped-up on shore oil ends up, this is mississippi's pecan grove landfill. what cleanup crews gather on shore, tar balls, oiled sand and vegetation is hauled away and buried here. ...

That work is going to put a new seal, a new cap, on top of that gushing oil well. now, of course, we know a cap was on there that was being able to siphon up a lot of the oil up to a ship. but this new cap is going to be able to siphon up even more oil. that h thad allen, retired admiral from the coast guard, in charge of effort could have this in place this weekend, and siphon up even more oil. however, in the time it takes to take it off and put the new cap on, more oil is actually going to be gushing into the gulf for a short time. so that's something we're going to keep an eye on over the ...