An attachment to a drainage hose for use on a stockpiling barge that
includes: a fluid pervious bag formed of a flexible fabric material, the
fluid pervious bag having an open end and a closed end, a ballast material
attached to or retained within the closed end of the fluid pervious bag,
and means for securing the open end of the fluid pervious bag about a
hose. Also disclosed are the attachment in combination with a drainage
hose and a stockpiling barge, a method of filtering runoff water from a
stockpiling barge through the use of the attachments, and a method of
preventing non-dissolved organic or inorganic contaminants from flowing
from a stockpiling barge into a body of water through the use of the
attachments.
