Crap Towns / Chadderton / Pollution incidents
How often does Chadderton get polluted?
3 serious pollution incidents have been recorded in Chadderton 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 April 2023 and put unidentified oil in the water.
| When | What | Where | Impact |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 2023 | Unidentified oil | In the water | Significant |
| September 2022 | Organic chemical or product | In the water | Significant |
| June 2021 | Detergent | In the water | Significant |
| Town | Distance | Serious incidents since 2016 |
|---|---|---|
| Heywood | 7.4 km | 8 |
| Shaw | 6.6 km | 7 |
| Droylsden | 5.6 km | 5 |
| Failsworth | 3.3 km | 5 |
| Audenshaw | 7.0 km | 4 |
| Middleton | 3.5 km | 4 |
| Chadderton | – | 3 |
| Ashton-under-Lyne | 6.0 km | 2 |
| Oldham | 3.7 km | 2 |
| Royton | 4.3 km | 1 |