Invasion of the Iron Snake

What a frightening sight.... over one mile of metal tubing is dragged up the creek in readiness for the big suck...i.e the five yearly dredging of Hoskins Creek.  For the last two days tugs have been moving supplies up the Rappahannock and staging them at buoy #1 which resembles a shanty town of barges, generators, pumps, drums and tubing. Two tugs then pull the 24 metal suction pipes up the creek to be later joined together to form the pumping pipe for the dredged spoil to be sent up the creek to a receiving pond.  More to follow....