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Connie rocco is the president of the board of supervisors in harrison county, mississippi, where the pecan grove landfill is located. how do you feel about this oily mixture coming off the beaches and ending up in your landfill? >> we're tired of being dumped on. we don't want it. it's valuable landfill space and it's hazardous to our citizens. take your waste somewhere else or please find an alternative. >> reporter: rockco says the board passed a resolution not to accept any bp waste in this community. that didn't matter. that's because waste management, which owns the landfill, doesn't have...

Wrong. connie rockco is the president of the board of supervisors in harrison county, mississippi, where the pecan grove landfill is located. how do you feel about this oily mixture coming off the beaches and ending up in your landfill? >> we're tired of being dumped on. we don't want it. it's valuable landfill space and it's harmful to our citizens. take your waste somewhere else or please find an alternative. >> reporter: rockco says the board passed a resolution not to accept any bp waste in this community. that didn't matter. that's because waste management, which owns the landfill, doesn'...

Stand by with my interview with admiral thad allen, revealing new information to us. you'll want to hear what he has to say. gulf coast residents clearly don't want oil and tar balls washing up on their beaches but they apparently don't want them in their back yards either. cnn's randi kaye takes a closer look at the controversy over where to dump the crude. >> reporter: if you've been wondering where all that scooped up, onshore oil ends up, here's your answer. this is mississippi's pecan grove landfill. what cleanup crews gather onshore, tar balls, oiled sand, and vegetation, is hauled away ...

Management that owns the landfill doesn't have to listen to the county board. it has a contract with the state, so it signed a contract with bp and dumped the waste right where rocco and others feared they would. what concerns you most about this oil and the tar balls go into your handfill? >> the long-term effects that we will have to endure if it, in fact -- if, in fact, we do find that it is dangerous. >> reporter: like if it gets into your water? >> water table, absolutely. >> reporter: keeping them honest, we asked bp why its disposing of waste in a county where the people pleaded they no...

They've got booms out there. the chief of the fire department saying the booms don't really do much because the water goes right over them. they're trying to keep this harbor area open so the little boats trying to pick up these tar balls -- they want to keep the harbor open because there's people who have boats that lease this area over here and they just want to make sure that they can keep it as open as possible and keep the beaches as clean as possible. >> one quick question on that attempt to keep the beaches clean. what is that effort like? houfb are th how often are they coming out havi...