The former owner of one of the world's largest tyre dumps that sat dormant in western Victoria for almost a decade is facing fines of more than $1 million for ignoring orders to remove the notorious fire hazard.

The Environment Protection Authority continues to pursue the owners of the Stawell dump after it had to step in last year and remove one million tyres because of the huge risk to the community if the stockpile caught fire.

An aerial shot from 2014 of the Stawell tyre dump. Credit:Boomerang Alliance

However that could just be the beginning of the financial pain facing the dump's owner, with the environment watchdog still planning to take legal action to recoup the $6 million it spent cleaning it up.

It took 380 truckloads to move 9500 tonnes of tyres over two months, after the toxic stockpile had been the subject of a CFA fire prevention notice and three EPA notices.