Crap Towns / Stafford / Pollution incidents
How often does Stafford get polluted?
9 serious pollution incidents have been recorded in Stafford or within 1 km of it since 2016, the joint 118th most of the 948 English towns that have had one. 1 was major, the worst kind. The most recent came in September 2026 and put building rubble on the land and in the air. Commercial waste turned up in 2 of them.
| When | What | Where | Impact |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | Building rubble | On the land and in the air | Significant |
| July 2026 | Building rubble and smoke | On the land and in the air | Significant |
| January 2024 | An unidentified pollutant | On the land | Significant |
| January 2020 | Commercial waste | On the land | Significant |
| January 2020 | Commercial waste | On the land | Significant |
| August 2019 | Mineral materials and wastes | In the water and on the land | Significant |
| March 2019 | Contaminated building rubble | On the land and in the air | Significant |
| March 2016 | Oil or fuel | In the water, on the land and in the air | Major |
| February 2016 | Landfill odour | In the air | Significant |
| Town | Distance | Serious incidents since 2016 |
|---|---|---|
| Cannock | 13.1 km | 16 |
| Stafford | – | 9 |
| Great Wyrley and Cheslyn Hay | 16.7 km | 7 |
| Newport | 18.4 km | 7 |
| Featherstone | 17.1 km | 2 |
| Rugeley | 12.0 km | 2 |
| Norton Canes | 17.2 km | 1 |
| Stone | 10.9 km | 1 |