Crap Towns / Solihull / Pollution incidents
How often does Solihull get polluted?
8 serious pollution incidents have been recorded in Solihull or within 1 km of it since 2016, the joint 139th most of the 948 English towns that have had one. The most recent came in July 2025 and put sewage material in the water.
| When | What | Where | Impact |
|---|---|---|---|
| July 2025 | Sewage material | In the water | Significant |
| August 2024 | Contaminated building rubble, electrical equipment, household waste, smoke and tyres | In the air | Significant |
| September 2023 | Microbiological | In the water | Significant |
| June 2018 | An unidentified pollutant | In the water | Significant |
| December 2017 | Crude sewage | In the water | Significant |
| August 2017 | An unidentified pollutant | In the water | Significant |
| March 2017 | Soil and clay | In the water | Significant |
| May 2016 | Grey water | In the water | Significant |
| Town | Distance | Serious incidents since 2016 |
|---|---|---|
| Birmingham | 8.8 km | 61 |
| Smethwick | 14.5 km | 12 |
| Redditch | 15.1 km | 9 |
| Solihull | – | 8 |
| Oldbury | 17.2 km | 4 |
| Balsall Common | 10.5 km | 2 |
| Catshill | 17.2 km | 2 |
| Knowle and Dorridge | 5.5 km | 2 |
| Coleshill | 14.8 km | 1 |