Crap Towns / Hartlepool / Pollution incidents
How often does Hartlepool get polluted?
8 serious pollution incidents have been recorded in Hartlepool 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 August 2026 and put household waste on the land. Crude sewage turned up in 2 of them.
| When | What | Where | Impact |
|---|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | Household waste | On the land | Significant |
| December 2025 | Contaminated water | In the water | Significant |
| December 2025 | Crude sewage | In the water | Significant |
| August 2025 | Smoke | In the air | Significant |
| July 2025 | An unidentified pollutant | In the water | Significant |
| August 2024 | Hydrocarbons | In the air | Significant |
| January 2024 | Fumes | In the air | Major |
| June 2016 | Crude sewage | In the water | Significant |
| Town | Distance | Serious incidents since 2016 |
|---|---|---|
| Middlesbrough | 15.0 km | 9 |
| Hartlepool | – | 8 |
| Billingham | 10.2 km | 7 |
| Eston | 13.8 km | 4 |
| Peterlee | 12.0 km | 3 |
| Redcar | 12.5 km | 3 |
| Horden | 11.0 km | 2 |
| Stockton-on-Tees | 14.3 km | 2 |
| Thornaby-on-Tees | 15.5 km | 2 |
| Easington | 13.7 km | 1 |
| Wingate | 11.4 km | 1 |