Crap Towns / Lee-on-the-Solent / Pollution incidents
How often does Lee-on-the-Solent get polluted?
3 serious pollution incidents have been recorded in Lee-on-the-Solent or within 1 km of it since 2016, the joint 360th most of the 948 English towns that have had one. The most recent came in July 2025 and put crude sewage in the water. Crude sewage turned up in 3 of them.
| When | What | Where | Impact |
|---|---|---|---|
| July 2025 | Crude sewage | In the water | Significant |
| July 2025 | Crude sewage | In the water | Significant |
| October 2023 | Crude sewage | In the water | Significant |
| Town | Distance | Serious incidents since 2016 |
|---|---|---|
| Locks Heath | 6.1 km | 5 |
| Cowes | 10.3 km | 4 |
| East Cowes | 9.0 km | 4 |
| Lee-on-the-Solent | – | 3 |
| Portsmouth | 9.9 km | 2 |
| Blackfield and Langley | 11.1 km | 1 |
| Bursledon | 10.1 km | 1 |
| Fareham | 3.6 km | 1 |
| Gosport | 5.2 km | 1 |
| Whiteley | 7.7 km | 1 |