ciba thought their troubles were over. but the chemical problems in toms river continued to grow. >> the second big thing that happened in toms river that is ermane to the story is illegal dumpers started coming down in central and southern new jersey where there was lots of open space and not a lot of people watching, carrying trucks with hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of barrels of hazardous waste. that they didn't want to dispose of legally because it was too expensive. there was one very fateful illegal dumping incident that occurred in the early 1970's in the back two acres of a chicken farm. this trucker took several thousand rusting barrels of hazardous waste from union carbide into north jersey and just started digging trenches in the back of this chicken farm and dumping these barrels, many of which were already coming apart. and union carbide did not take a lot of interest in what this guy was doing, they were happy to be rid of their barrel also. >> in just three months, september-november, 1971, over 5,