Crap Towns / Shaw / Pollution incidents
How often does Shaw get polluted?
7 serious pollution incidents have been recorded in Shaw or within 1 km of it since 2016, the joint 164th most of the 948 English towns that have had one. The most recent came in September 2023 and put commercial waste and contaminated building rubble on the land. Commercial waste turned up in 5 of them.
| When | What | Where | Impact |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 2023 | Commercial waste and contaminated building rubble | On the land | Significant |
| September 2023 | Commercial waste and contaminated building rubble | On the land | Significant |
| September 2023 | Commercial waste, building rubble and soil and clay | In the water and on the land | Significant |
| May 2023 | Commercial waste, building rubble and soil and clay | On the land | Significant |
| March 2023 | Commercial waste and building rubble | In the water and on the land | Significant |
| December 2020 | Building rubble | On the land | Significant |
| December 2020 | Building rubble | On the land | Significant |
| Town | Distance | Serious incidents since 2016 |
|---|---|---|
| Shaw | – | 7 |
| Rochdale | 5.8 km | 5 |
| Middleton | 7.4 km | 4 |
| Chadderton | 6.6 km | 3 |
| Milnrow | 3.4 km | 3 |
| Oldham | 4.6 km | 2 |
| Littleborough | 7.0 km | 1 |
| Royton | 2.5 km | 1 |
| Uppermill | 6.9 km | 1 |