Crap Towns / Canterbury / Pollution incidents
How often does Canterbury get polluted?
7 serious pollution incidents have been recorded in Canterbury 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 December 2025 and put building rubble on the land. Commercial waste turned up in 2 of them.
| When | What | Where | Impact |
|---|---|---|---|
| December 2025 | Building rubble | On the land | Significant |
| May 2024 | Commercial waste and contaminated soil | On the land | Significant |
| March 2024 | Commercial waste and inorganic chemical or product | On the land | Significant |
| September 2023 | Crude sewage | In the water | Major |
| March 2022 | Landfill odour | In the air | Significant |
| April 2018 | Crude sewage | In the water | Significant |
| August 2016 | Diesel | In the water | Significant |
| Town | Distance | Serious incidents since 2016 |
|---|---|---|
| Ashford | 21.0 km | 16 |
| Whitstable | 8.7 km | 9 |
| Canterbury | – | 7 |
| Herne Bay | 10.9 km | 6 |
| Herne | 8.9 km | 5 |
| Folkestone | 21.8 km | 3 |
| Deal | 22.6 km | 2 |
| Faversham | 14.0 km | 2 |
| Aylesham | 10.1 km | 1 |