Crap Towns / Billingham / Pollution incidents
How often does Billingham get polluted?
7 serious pollution incidents have been recorded in Billingham or within 1 km of it since 2016, the joint 164th most of the 948 English towns that have had one. 1 was major, the worst kind. The most recent came in June 2025 and put noise on the land and in the air. Dust turned up in 2 of them.
| When | What | Where | Impact |
|---|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | Noise | On the land and in the air | Significant |
| June 2025 | Noise | On the land and in the air | Significant |
| February 2023 | Dust | In the air | Significant |
| March 2022 | Dust | On the land and in the air | Significant |
| June 2021 | Contaminated soil | On the land | Significant |
| September 2019 | Smoke | On the land and in the air | Major |
| October 2017 | Waste oil | In the water | Significant |
| Town | Distance | Serious incidents since 2016 |
|---|---|---|
| Middlesbrough | 6.6 km | 9 |
| Hartlepool | 10.2 km | 8 |
| Billingham | – | 7 |
| Eston | 8.4 km | 4 |
| Redcar | 12.6 km | 3 |
| Egglescliffe | 10.1 km | 2 |
| Stockton-on-Tees | 4.6 km | 2 |
| Thornaby-on-Tees | 5.3 km | 2 |
| Guisborough | 15.7 km | 1 |
| Ingleby Barwick | 9.6 km | 1 |
| Yarm | 12.0 km | 1 |