Crap Towns / Penryn / Pollution incidents
How often does Penryn get polluted?
3 serious pollution incidents have been recorded in Penryn 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 September 2024 and put commercial waste, building rubble, smoke, soot/smuts and vegetable cuttings and deposits in the air. Smoke turned up in 2 of them.
| When | What | Where | Impact |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 2024 | Commercial waste, building rubble, smoke, soot/smuts and vegetable cuttings and deposits | In the air | Significant |
| June 2019 | Suspended solids | In the water | Significant |
| January 2017 | Smoke | On the land and in the air | Significant |
| Town | Distance | Serious incidents since 2016 |
|---|---|---|
| Falmouth | 3.0 km | 8 |
| Newquay | 27.5 km | 8 |
| Camborne | 14.1 km | 3 |
| Penryn | – | 3 |
| St Austell | 30.6 km | 2 |
| Truro | 11.4 km | 2 |
| Hayle | 21.3 km | 1 |
| Helston | 13.5 km | 1 |