Drinking Water
Treatment guide and known town supply sources along the river
Past Murrumbidgee River Expeditions
Fairly minimal detail about the upper section has been found online other than the whitewater paddling guides at Waterways Guide.
This (Murrumbidgee Gorge) is a hard walk with rock hopping and no track, expect wet feet.
And the following online blogs about the lower section, all by canoe or kayak:
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2000/1
Rod Boswell and Christine Charles
Canoe
Rod Boswell and Christine Charles trip down the 'bidgee to the sea. Very heavily ladened canoe with a small engine and a fridge!?
They caught a high flow from Jugiong down to about Narrandera (up to 12,600 ML/day) but various commitments on the way meant that they fell off the back of the flow and they had to do the last sections with a very low flow under 300 ML/day with some difficulty in their laden canoe.
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Oct 2014
Peter Phillips
Kayak
8 days between Hay and the Confluence in Sept 2014. Without knowing the exact dates, river flow was likely around 1,400 ML/day and the journey didn't note anything major. Approx 60 km per day.
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2004-2016
Mike Bremers, partly solo, partly in teams
Kayak
Done on multiple short trips over the years, occasionally repeating sections too!
Sections done with flows under 500 ML/day note issues with snags albeit decent progress is made, including the Maude to Balranald leg with a flow of just 150 ML/day to 200 ML/day where he managed 30 km days.
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2020
Alan Davison
Sea Kayak
23rd Nov to 7th Dec 2020, 14 days with an extra rest day.
Great flows for the first five days, 9,250 ML/day to 15,000 ML/day before it slowed below Yanco. Flow of just under 5,000 ML/day to Hay and a tad under 1,500 ML/day down to the Murray. Another day and a half paddling down to Robinvale. No issues with these flows, though above 2,500 ML/day would have made for a more pleasant way to finish.
