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Wednesday 10 September 2014

Wellington Dam - Collie

The Wellington Dam in Collie supplies water to the south west region of Western Australia, on a recent drive through the area, we stopped at the dam before heading to Bunbury.


The dam overflowed in September 2013, the first time since 2009. The last time a Perth dam overflowed was in 1996, the level of the Wellington Dam was once again close to overflow when we visited in November - a very wet spring accounted for the exccess water.


The outlet pipe shoots a stream of water down to the overflow region where a bridge allows access.


Only a small degree of overflow is occurring, this is the water exhausted through the outlet pipe at the base of the dam. 

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