Crap Towns / Cannock / Pollution incidents
How often does Cannock get polluted?
16 serious pollution incidents have been recorded in Cannock or within 1 km of it since 2016, the joint 43rd most of the 948 English towns that have had one. 4 were major, the worst kind. The most recent came in May 2024 and put organic chemical or product in the air. Landfill odour turned up in 7 of them.
| When | What | Where | Impact |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 2024 | Organic chemical or product | In the air | Significant |
| May 2024 | Smoke | In the air | Significant |
| May 2023 | Smoke | In the air | Significant |
| September 2022 | Smoke | In the air | Significant |
| September 2021 | Odour | In the air | Significant |
| August 2020 | An unidentified pollutant | In the water | Significant |
| August 2020 | Landfill odour | In the air | Significant |
| July 2020 | Landfill odour | In the air | Significant |
| June 2020 | Landfill odour | In the air | Significant |
| May 2020 | An unidentified pollutant | In the air | Significant |
| February 2020 | Landfill odour | In the air | Major |
| January 2020 | Landfill odour | In the air | Major |
| December 2019 | Landfill odour | In the air | Major |
| November 2019 | Landfill odour | In the air | Significant |
| June 2019 | Asbestos and building rubble | On the land | Significant |
| May 2019 | Crude sewage | In the water | Major |
| Town | Distance | Serious incidents since 2016 |
|---|---|---|
| Cannock | – | 16 |
| Brownhills | 7.9 km | 13 |
| Rushall and Shelfield | 10.5 km | 13 |
| Great Wyrley and Cheslyn Hay | 4.5 km | 7 |
| Bloxwich | 9.7 km | 4 |
| Featherstone | 8.6 km | 2 |
| Rugeley | 8.3 km | 2 |
| Norton Canes | 4.1 km | 1 |
| Pelsall | 8.0 km | 1 |