Crap Towns / Waterbeach / Pollution incidents
How often does Waterbeach get polluted?
5 serious pollution incidents have been recorded in Waterbeach 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 October 2025 and put crude sewage in the water. Smoke turned up in 2 of them.
| When | What | Where | Impact |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 2025 | Crude sewage | In the water | Significant |
| September 2019 | Smoke | In the air | Significant |
| August 2017 | Smoke | In the air | Significant |
| August 2016 | Odour | In the air | Significant |
| July 2016 | Odour | In the air | Significant |
| Town | Distance | Serious incidents since 2016 |
|---|---|---|
| Cambridge | 8.3 km | 6 |
| Waterbeach | – | 5 |
| Histon and Impington | 5.7 km | 2 |
| Cottenham | 4.6 km | 1 |
| Ely | 15.0 km | 1 |
| Longstanton and Northstowe | 8.6 km | 1 |
| Newmarket | 15.4 km | 1 |