Crap Towns / Farnborough / Pollution incidents
How often does Farnborough get polluted?
8 serious pollution incidents have been recorded in Farnborough or within 1 km of it since 2016, the joint 139th most of the 948 English towns that have had one. 2 were major, the worst kind. The most recent came in January 2026 and put sludge in the water. Crude sewage turned up in 2 of them.
| When | What | Where | Impact |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 2026 | Sludge | In the water | Significant |
| September 2024 | An unidentified pollutant | In the water | Significant |
| September 2023 | An unidentified pollutant | In the water | Significant |
| June 2023 | Crude sewage | In the water | Significant |
| March 2023 | Final effluent | On the land | Significant |
| April 2020 | Sludge | In the water | Significant |
| November 2019 | Crude sewage | In the water | Major |
| May 2017 | An unidentified pollutant | In the water | Major |
| Town | Distance | Serious incidents since 2016 |
|---|---|---|
| Fleet | 5.0 km | 9 |
| Farnborough | – | 8 |
| Aldershot | 4.2 km | 6 |
| Ash and Ash Vale | 5.0 km | 6 |
| Camberley | 6.3 km | 6 |
| Yateley | 7.3 km | 4 |
| Blackwater | 5.7 km | 3 |
| Sandhurst | 7.1 km | 3 |
| Frimley | 4.1 km | 2 |
| Weybourne | 6.0 km | 1 |