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Outfall UK QGIS 4 compatibility
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Yes — Outfall UK supports QGIS 4 (declared max version 4.99.0).
Is it safe to swim? UK bathing-water ratings and live sewage spills from every storm overflow.
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Outfall UK puts every designated bathing water in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland on your map, coloured by its official annual rating (Excellent, Good, Sufficient, Poor) or, where published, today's pollution-risk forecast. Tick a box to add the storm-overflow network too: about 20,000 monitored sewage overflows from every English and Welsh water company and Scottish Water, coloured by whether each one is discharging now, discharged recently, not discharging or offline, updated within about an hour from the Water UK Stream feeds behind the National Storm Overflow Hub. Northern Ireland's overflow locations are included, although NI Water does not yet publish live status. Each nation loads as its own layer in an Outfall UK group, so you show or hide nations with the normal layer checkboxes, and you can click any site or overflow with the Identify tool for its details. All data is official, free and keyless: the Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales via the DEFRA platform, SEPA, DAERA and the water companies. Inspired by Surfers Against Sewage's Live Sewage Map. Built on the same engine I built for the Wake (vessels), Contrail (aircraft) and Zenith (satellites) live-data QGIS plugins.
| Author | Peter Cotroneo |
|---|---|
| Downloads | 82 |
| Latest version | 0.6.0 |
| Last updated | 2026-09-27 (18 days ago) |
| Min QGIS | 3.28.0 |
| Max QGIS | 4.99.0 |
| QGIS 4 ready | Yes |
| Maintenance | Active |
| Category | Hydrology & water |
| Tags | bathing water, water quality, swimming, pollution, sewage, storm overflow, spills, cso, beach, coast, rivers, environment, uk, defra, sepa, daera, nrw |
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