Crap Towns / Fleet / Pollution incidents
How often does Fleet get polluted?
9 serious pollution incidents have been recorded in Fleet or within 1 km of it since 2016, the joint 118th most of the 948 English towns that have had one. 3 were major, the worst kind. The most recent came in January 2026 and put sewage material in the water. Final effluent turned up in 3 of them.
| When | What | Where | Impact |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 2026 | Sewage material | In the water | Significant |
| December 2025 | Final effluent | In the water | Significant |
| May 2025 | Final effluent | In the water | Significant |
| June 2023 | Crude sewage | In the water | Significant |
| August 2020 | An unidentified pollutant | In the water, on the land and in the air | Major |
| August 2020 | An unidentified pollutant | In the water | Significant |
| June 2020 | Sludge | In the water | Major |
| July 2017 | Final effluent | In the water | Significant |
| September 2016 | Crude sewage | In the water | Major |
| Town | Distance | Serious incidents since 2016 |
|---|---|---|
| Fleet | – | 9 |
| Farnborough | 5.0 km | 8 |
| Aldershot | 6.6 km | 6 |
| Ash and Ash Vale | 8.6 km | 6 |
| Yateley | 6.8 km | 4 |
| Blackwater | 7.2 km | 3 |
| Frimley | 8.5 km | 2 |
| Odiham | 7.7 km | 1 |
| Weybourne | 5.9 km | 1 |