Crap Towns / Cudworth and Shafton / Pollution incidents
How often does Cudworth and Shafton get polluted?
8 serious pollution incidents have been recorded in Cudworth and Shafton or within 1 km of it since 2016, the joint 139th most of the 948 English towns that have had one. The most recent came in April 2024 and put waste oil on the land. Noise turned up in 4 of them.
| When | What | Where | Impact |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 2024 | Waste oil | On the land | Significant |
| September 2020 | Noise | In the air | Significant |
| August 2020 | Noise | In the air | Significant |
| July 2020 | Noise | In the air | Significant |
| June 2020 | Noise | In the air | Significant |
| May 2019 | Firefighting run-off and smoke | In the water | Significant |
| May 2019 | Crude sewage and grey water | In the water | Significant |
| April 2016 | Crude sewage | In the water | Significant |
| Town | Distance | Serious incidents since 2016 |
|---|---|---|
| Barnsley | 4.5 km | 26 |
| Cudworth and Shafton | – | 8 |
| Royston | 3.0 km | 6 |
| Wombwell | 7.0 km | 5 |
| Darfield | 5.9 km | 2 |
| Hemsworth | 5.1 km | 2 |
| South Kirkby | 6.2 km | 2 |
| Worsbrough | 6.9 km | 1 |