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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 ...

>> reporter: like if it gets into your water? >> water table, absolutely. >> reporter: keeping them honest, we asked bp why it's disposing of spill waste in a county that says it's pleaded with them not to. bp wouldn't comment. so, we asked waste management's ken haldin 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 into 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 o...

That it is dangerous. >> reporter: like if it gets into your water? >> water table, absolutely. >> reporter: keeping them honest, we asked bp why it's disposing of spill waste in a county that says it's pleaded with them not to. bp wouldn't comment. so we asked waste management's ken haldin 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 into 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 bec...

If, in fact, we do find that it is dangerous. >> reporter: like if it gets into your water? >> absolutely. into the water table. >> reporter: keeping them honest we asked bp why it's disposing of spill waste in a county that says it's pleaded with them not to? bp wouldn't comment. so we asked waste management's ken holdin 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 into this landfill from the oil spill is going to end up in their water system and make the community sick. >> i...

With them not to. bp wouldn't comment. so, we asked waste management's ken holding 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 into 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 about what an engineered landfill is. >> reporter: he says it's a nonhazardous waste site. no liquid oil will be coming here just solid oil waste. before it's dumped, it's stor...