Crap Towns / Heysham / Pollution incidents
How often does Heysham get polluted?
5 serious pollution incidents have been recorded in Heysham or within 1 km of it since 2016, the joint 231st most of the 948 English towns that have had one. The most recent came in February 2025 and put unidentified oil in the water. Unidentified oil turned up in 2 of them.
| When | What | Where | Impact |
|---|---|---|---|
| February 2025 | Unidentified oil | In the water | Significant |
| June 2021 | Diesel | In the water and on the land | Significant |
| January 2020 | Unidentified oil | In the water | Significant |
| September 2017 | Contaminated water | On the land | Significant |
| January 2017 | Commercial waste | On the land | Significant |
| Town | Distance | Serious incidents since 2016 |
|---|---|---|
| Fleetwood | 18.5 km | 14 |
| Heysham | – | 5 |
| Thornton | 21.4 km | 5 |
| Lancaster | 5.5 km | 4 |
| Cleveleys | 21.6 km | 2 |
| Dalton-in-Furness | 22.5 km | 2 |
| Morecambe | 2.6 km | 2 |
| Bolton-le-Sands | 6.2 km | 1 |
| Garstang | 17.9 km | 1 |