Crap Towns / Stoke Gifford / Pollution incidents
How often does Stoke Gifford get polluted?
7 serious pollution incidents have been recorded in Stoke Gifford or within 1 km of it since 2016, the joint 164th most of the 948 English towns that have had one. 1 was major, the worst kind. The most recent came in August 2026 and put crude sewage in the water. Crude sewage turned up in 2 of them.
| When | What | Where | Impact |
|---|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | Crude sewage | In the water | Significant |
| January 2025 | Diesel | In the water | Significant |
| August 2021 | Crude sewage | In the water | Major |
| October 2020 | Storm sewage | In the water | Significant |
| December 2019 | Soil and clay | In the water | Significant |
| May 2019 | An unidentified pollutant | In the water | Significant |
| July 2017 | Firefighting run-off and smoke | In the air | Significant |
| Town | Distance | Serious incidents since 2016 |
|---|---|---|
| Bristol | 6.9 km | 16 |
| Bradley Stoke | 2.6 km | 8 |
| Filton | 2.4 km | 7 |
| Stoke Gifford | – | 7 |
| Kingswood and Fishponds | 4.6 km | 6 |
| Patchway | 3.6 km | 5 |
| Keynsham | 11.2 km | 2 |
| Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne | 4.8 km | 1 |
| Yate | 9.3 km | 1 |