Crap Towns / Brighouse / Pollution incidents
How often does Brighouse get polluted?
3 serious pollution incidents have been recorded in Brighouse or within 1 km of it since 2016, the joint 360th most of the 948 English towns that have had one. The most recent came in December 2025 and put building rubble and household waste on the land.
| When | What | Where | Impact |
|---|---|---|---|
| December 2025 | Building rubble and household waste | On the land | Significant |
| February 2020 | Suspended solids | In the water | Significant |
| August 2019 | Crude sewage | In the water | Significant |
| Town | Distance | Serious incidents since 2016 |
|---|---|---|
| Elland | 3.7 km | 13 |
| Gomersal and Birkenshaw | 8.2 km | 11 |
| Huddersfield | 6.3 km | 11 |
| Cleckheaton | 5.1 km | 10 |
| Halifax | 7.0 km | 10 |
| Heckmondwike | 7.7 km | 4 |
| Liversedge | 5.6 km | 4 |
| Brighouse | – | 3 |
| Queensbury | 8.0 km | 2 |
| Shelf and Northowram | 5.0 km | 2 |