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 excess 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.