Crap Towns / Rochdale / Pollution incidents
How often does Rochdale get polluted?
5 serious pollution incidents have been recorded in Rochdale 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 December 2020 and put building rubble on the land. Building rubble turned up in 2 of them.
| When | What | Where | Impact |
|---|---|---|---|
| December 2020 | Building rubble | On the land | Significant |
| April 2020 | An unidentified pollutant | In the water | Significant |
| March 2019 | Crude sewage | In the water | Significant |
| June 2017 | An unidentified pollutant | In the water | Significant |
| March 2017 | Commercial waste, building rubble, contaminated building rubble and household waste | On the land | Significant |
| Town | Distance | Serious incidents since 2016 |
|---|---|---|
| Bury | 8.9 km | 8 |
| Heywood | 5.1 km | 8 |
| Shaw | 5.8 km | 7 |
| Rochdale | – | 5 |
| Middleton | 7.1 km | 4 |
| Whitworth | 4.7 km | 4 |
| Chadderton | 9.0 km | 3 |
| Milnrow | 3.5 km | 3 |
| Oldham | 9.2 km | 2 |
| Littleborough | 5.2 km | 1 |
| Royton | 5.8 km | 1 |