Crap Towns / Heywood / Pollution incidents
How often does Heywood get polluted?
8 serious pollution incidents have been recorded in Heywood 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 March 2025 and put crude sewage in the water and on the land. Building rubble turned up in 3 of them.
| When | What | Where | Impact |
|---|---|---|---|
| March 2025 | Crude sewage | In the water and on the land | Significant |
| November 2023 | Landfill odour | In the air | Significant |
| June 2020 | Building rubble | On the land | Significant |
| February 2020 | Building rubble | On the land | Significant |
| February 2020 | Building rubble | On the land | Significant |
| January 2020 | Firefighting run-off and smoke | In the air | Major |
| October 2017 | Kerosene | In the water | Significant |
| June 2017 | An unidentified pollutant | In the water | Significant |
| Town | Distance | Serious incidents since 2016 |
|---|---|---|
| Bury | 4.6 km | 8 |
| Heywood | – | 8 |
| Rochdale | 5.1 km | 5 |
| Middleton | 4.0 km | 4 |
| Radcliffe | 6.9 km | 4 |
| Whitworth | 8.4 km | 4 |
| Chadderton | 7.4 km | 3 |
| Milnrow | 8.1 km | 3 |
| Prestwich | 7.2 km | 1 |
| Royton | 7.0 km | 1 |