Waterworks Depot
Inert
Waterworks Depot is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bolton. It received inert waste between 1970 and 1988, covering about 0.99 hectares. Reference EAHLD15773, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD15773 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Waterworks Depot |
| Address | Crompton Way, Bolton |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | North West Water Authority |
| Licence issued | 1 October 1980 |
| Licence surrendered | 12 March 1993 |
| First waste input | 1 March 1970 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1988 |
| Area | 0.99 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 372200, 411200 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Bolton Power StationIndustrialInert
- Bolton PowerstationIndustrialCommercialInert
- Boardman StreetWaste types not recorded
- Boardman StreetWaste types not recorded
- Weymouth StreetWaste types not recorded
- Thicketford BrowWaste types not recorded
What this data does — and doesn't — cover
- Licensed-era records only. Waste licensing began in 1974. Older tips — especially small pre-war ones — are incompletely recorded, so absence from this data does not mean no landfill ever existed here.
- Not the contaminated-land register. Councils hold a separate register of land determined as contaminated. A historic landfill entry is not a contamination determination, and vice versa.
- Boundaries are indicative. Digitised at 1:10,000 scale; some are buffers around a point rather than surveyed edges.
- Not a substitute for a formal environmental search. If you're buying, your conveyancer's environmental search checks this and several other sources.
EA Historic Landfill dataset, October 2025 revision. More on the methodology page.