...Dumping waste tires was not specifically outlawed until the 1991 law, said Art Braswell, director of DHEC's Bureau of Solid and Hazardous Waste Management. "Open dumping has always been illegal but tires weren't specifically named until...

...migrated far beyond the swampy bog on the Dortch property. In a 1992 site report, Craig Dukes of the state agency's Bureau of Solid and Hazardous Waste Management noted that contamination from metals was found as far as 4 1/2 miles downstream...