SLIPPERY RWY CONDITIONS EXIST AT CHS DUE TO ACCUMULATION OF RUBBER.

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RWY 15/33 IS AN ACCIDENT WAITING TO HAPPEN. OUR COMMERCIAL PAGES WARN IT'S SLIPPERY WHEN WET. IT MASKS A SERIOUS PROB. LANDED ON A WET (NOT FLOODED) RWY 33. HAD SLOWED TO LESS THAN 60 KTS AND ATTEMPTED TO USE BRAKES TO SLOW TO TAXI OFF ON TXWY E. BRAKING ACTION WAS NIL. IT MAKES ME WONDER WHAT OUR ABILITY TO ABORT A TKOF ON RWY 33 WOULD BE. PLEASE MAKE CHS SCRAPE AND REPAIR OR CLOSE RWY 33 BEFORE SOMEONE GETS HURT. CALLBACK CONVERSATION WITH RPTR REVEALED THE FOLLOWING INFO: RPTR STATED THE RWY WAS VERY SLIPPERY DUE TO ACCUMULATION OF RUBBER AT THE END OF RWY 33. HE ALSO STATED THAT HIS AIRLINE MANUAL CONTAINED DESCRIPTIVE PAGES STATING THE HAZARD OF THE RUBBER ACCUMULATION ON THIS RWY. THE FIELD IS A DUAL USE FIELD; MANY MIL ACFT USE THE RWY; C130 TYPE; ALONG WITH COMMERCIAL ACFT. FROM WHAT THE RPTR UNDERSTANDS; THE MIL HAS THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR KEEPING THE RWY CLR AND CLEAN. THEY JUST HAVEN'T TAKEN THE TIME TO DO IT YET. RPTR SPECULATES THAT WITH GOV BUDGET RESTRAINTS THEY ARE SLOW TO TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION. RPTR DEPARTED RWY 21 THE FOLLOWING DAY AND STATED THAT IT WAS VERY ROUGH. HE WOULD LIKE THE RWYS TO BE IMPROVED AT CHARLESTON.