Hate it for you, my BIL had a nice gentleman help him with a report. BIL paid over 20k for tire removal from a past major truck line dumped them. Sought help from someone on here in the know, but it did not help.

PM sent.

Few years back ADEM used to have bids taken to clean up sites like that. We cleaned quite a few up. Not sure if they still do that.

This. Although talking to an attorney would be beneficial too

OR... You could save the $2k and not tell anybody anything.

How close is your nearest neighbor that you dont like...

(Just kidding).

With tires, that works. With leaking underground storage tanks with petroleum in 'em, not so much...

There was a used tire dealer near me that started burning tires behind their shop. The neighbors reported them and ADEM came and inspected. Report said " Talked to property owners, they admitted to burning tires and promised not to do it again.Was told of the environmental hazards. No follow up needed" They do not want the hassle of filling out reports or paperwork.

I would have just got a couple teenagers from church and paid them $100 each to help get all the tires and take them to the local landfill.
I would still do that.
Just get it done.
100-200 tires is not a lot of tires.
It could be done in less then a day.

What is it?.... Don’t ask Don’t tell especially where the government is concerned. That site has been there a long time and not hurting a thing. Seen several over the years of hunting. Now it seems you have an expensive problem.

I realize that 200 acres is a decent sized piece of land, but if you have had it for 3 years and these tires on a blacktop road, how is it that you have not seen this before now? Did you not travel all the roads on the property before buying?

Or are you saying that the blacktop has started to disintegrate and the tires are under it?

Or is your reference to blacktop is something other than a road?

Why it's gotta be Jewish

Idk I didn’t make the rules I just go by them

Gonna leave this right here. What you may fall under is called innocent landowner status (see page 7).

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It is the public asphalt road. I was picking up trash last January and with the leaves gone, I was able to see the bottom of the gully. It's definitely my fault for reporting it. That won't ever happen again. I just need help avoiding an expensive clean up that I didn't cause.

The letter said that I wasn't an innocent land owner. Why I don't know. I explained after the first letter what happened and how I found it. Obviously they don't intend to help with clean up like I was told they would.

I live about 200 miles away and go up there 4 to 5 times a year. I just happen to be walking the road picking up trash when the leaves were off the trees and could see the bottom of the gully.

So, if it is beside a public access road and presumed county or state maintained, does this mess fall within the county or state owned right of way for the road? If it does, then it seems like the county or state should be responsible for the clean up.

The state collects $1 per tire as environmental fee when you buy new tires. This goes into a fund to clean up illegal tire dump sites. When I found the dump site which appears to be 20+ years old, I contacted the state illegal dump site office within the Alabama Dept of Environmental Management as was suggested by several people and reported it. The man I talked to said if it met the qualification of 100 tires or more they would have it cleaned up. Fast forward 11 months later I revived a registered letter from them saying they "found" an illegal dump site on my property. You have to be standing on the county road while all the leaves are off the trees to see them down in the gully. They wanted to know how they got there and if I was responsible for putting them there. I responded to the letter telling them that I was not responsible for them being there and that I had reported it 11 months earlier hoping to get some help in the clean up. I had to fill out a form on how long I owned the property among other questions. Today I received a second registered letter stating that I didn't meet the requirement of an innocent land owner and I have 30 days to submit a plan to clean it up. They also included laws about it being illegal to burn tires and basically saying I had to track the tires to the grave and show proof that they were legally disposed of. The state of Alabama will never hear me reporting anything again, no matter what it is. I am as innocent as can be in this situation and even reported it myself, but it seems I might have bought a valuable lesson.

"30 days to submit clean up plan"
Send them a registered letter saying that your plan is to let them clean it up with funds they collect from tire distributors.