Crap Towns / Falmouth / Pollution incidents
How often does Falmouth get polluted?
8 serious pollution incidents have been recorded in Falmouth or within 1 km of it since 2016, the joint 139th most of the 948 English towns that have had one. 1 was major, the worst kind. The most recent came in September 2025 and put storm sewage in the water. Smoke turned up in 2 of them.
| When | What | Where | Impact |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 2025 | Storm sewage | In the water | Significant |
| September 2024 | Commercial waste, building rubble, smoke, soot/smuts and vegetable cuttings and deposits | In the air | Significant |
| March 2021 | An unidentified pollutant | In the water | Significant |
| January 2020 | Suspended solids | In the water | Major |
| June 2019 | Suspended solids | In the water | Significant |
| August 2017 | An unidentified pollutant | In the water | Significant |
| January 2017 | Smoke | On the land and in the air | Significant |
| January 2016 | Crude sewage | On the land | Significant |
| Town | Distance | Serious incidents since 2016 |
|---|---|---|
| Falmouth | – | 8 |
| Newquay | 29.3 km | 8 |
| Camborne | 16.9 km | 3 |
| Penryn | 3.0 km | 3 |
| St Austell | 30.3 km | 2 |
| Truro | 12.8 km | 2 |
| Hayle | 23.9 km | 1 |
| Helston | 14.5 km | 1 |