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How often does Ealing get polluted?

20 serious pollution incidents have been recorded in Ealing or within 1 km of it since 2016, the 32nd most of the 948 English towns that have had one. The most recent came in March 2025 and put crude sewage in the water. Crude sewage turned up in 6 of them.

The incidents
WhenWhatWhereImpact
March 2025Crude sewageIn the waterSignificant
February 2024PetrolIn the waterSignificant
January 2024Crude sewageOn the landSignificant
June 2023An unidentified pollutantIn the waterSignificant
June 2023An unidentified pollutantIn the waterSignificant
February 2023Waste oilIn the waterSignificant
September 2022Crude sewageIn the waterSignificant
September 2022Chemically contaminated run-offIn the waterSignificant
September 2022AlgaeIn the waterSignificant
February 2022Unidentified oilIn the waterSignificant
February 2022Unidentified oilIn the waterSignificant
October 2021Commercial waste, food and drink and grey waterIn the waterSignificant
June 2021Crude sewageIn the waterSignificant
July 2020Crude sewageIn the waterSignificant
June 2020Unidentified oilIn the waterSignificant
May 2020DieselIn the waterSignificant
November 2018Waste oilIn the waterSignificant
June 2018Firefighting run-offIn the waterSignificant
November 2016Crude sewageIn the waterSignificant
October 2016An unidentified pollutantIn the waterSignificant
Nearby towns
TownDistanceSerious incidents since 2016
Hillingdon8.2 km31
Brent5.9 km22
Harrow8.4 km22
Ealing–20
Hounslow6.5 km18
Richmond upon Thames9.0 km8
Westminster11.9 km5
Camden12.3 km4
Stanwell12.6 km1