A Wahgunyah couple have sandbagged their motel as rising water from the Murray was tipped to reach 7.7 metres on Wednesday.
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Riverside Motel owners Terry and Coral Young said neither the SES or Indigo Council were able to provide sandbags but fortunately the previous owner of the business had left some onsite.
A group of farmers from Grafton in northern NSW had booked seven rooms from Sunday but called Mr Young to cancel because of the logistical headache the waters caused.
Mr Young took aim at the Murray Darling Basin Authority for what he said was a failure in managing Lake Hume’s water releases.
“The impact for us is enormous,” he said.
“This flood today does not need to have happened.”
Mr Young said the motel’s rooms would be affected if water levels rose to about 8 metres.
Wahgunyah had not seen levels as high as this since 1996, when it reached 7.5 metres.
In 1992, the river rose to 7.72 metres and in 1975, 8.56 metres.