761 tons of crude-contaminated waste already has been buried at 2 landfills in Alabama and Florida

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http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gIbWpm0wcZxRa5O3TDLdOXmAwXMAD9GHIG382

AP check: Shoddy disposal work mars oil cleanup

By JAY REEVES (AP) – Jun 24, 2010

ORANGE BEACH, Ala. — A leaky truck filled with oil-stained sand and absorbent boom soaked in crude pulls away from the beach, leaving tar balls in a public parking lot and a messy trail of sand and water on the main beach road. A few miles away, brown liquid drips out of a disposal bin filled with polluted sand.

BP PLC's work to clean up the mess from the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history already has generated more than 1,300 tons of solid waste, and companies it hired to dispose of the material say debris is being handled professionally and carefully.

A spot check of several container sites by The Associated Press, however, found that's not always the case.

Along the northern Gulf coast, where miles of beaches have been coated with oil intermittently for two weeks, the check showed the handling and disposal of oily materials was haphazard at best. snip

BP says 761 tons of crude-contaminated waste already has been buried at the two landfills in Alabama and Florida. Some 13,100 cubic yards of oily waste have been buried in Louisiana, where the amount is being tallied by volume instead of weight.

[BrklynLiberal]

1. "Professionally and carefully"..Right! Just like the original drilling was handled ......

This is disgusting...and I hope illegal..and I sure hope that BP has to pay for cleaning up this secondary disaster they are creating.

There I go...hallucinating again....

[ensho]

2. spreading the disaster further inland

envolving more people in the toxic area

the fun never stops

[asjr]

3. That must be one hell of a large hole

they had to dig.

[PJPhreak]

4. This here...

Sorry about the large size,that how its posted on the web.

[Heywood J]

5. Let me guess, knowing BP...

that the landfills aren't lined and are sitting on top of some kind of aquifer.